Ministers warned over risk of violence and arson at Essex airbase holding asylum seekers
by Rajeev Syal and Diane Taylor from World news | The Guardian on (#6JP6D)
Exclusive: Letters from immigration watchdog set out official warning over conditions at Wethersfield site
Ministers have received an official warning that the UK's largest accommodation site for asylum seekers is at immediate risk of descending into criminality, arson and assaults on staff, letters released under the Freedom of Information act show.
The immigration watchdog David Neal has written to the home office ministers James Cleverly and Tom Pursglove saying hopelessness caused by boredom" among hundreds of young men at the Wethersfield airbase will inevitably" lead to harm.
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