Phone messages reveal detained British mothers fear death in Syrian camp

Exclusive: testimonies describing malnourishment and disease to renew pressure on government to repatriate dozens of Britons, many of them children

British mothers held in a prison camp in north-east Syria fear that they may die in detention after an alarming" deterioration in living conditions.

Their testimony - revealed in a series of WhatsApp messages seen by the Guardian - will place fresh pressure on the UK government to repatriate them and their children.