Rotherham football project bringing refugees ‘happiness’ after years of fear
When rioters stormed a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham and set it on fire last summer, Abel Zenebe was so scared he did not leave his house for two
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Tag: Refugees / Asylum
Migrant jailed for 10 years over rape of 15-year-old girl in Oxford
A migrant who was granted asylum in the UK after several attempts to deport him has been jailed for more than 10 years over the rape of a 15-year-old girl.
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Health services at ‘breaking point’ as self-harm rises at immigration centre
Health services are at “breaking point” as incidents of self-harm have more than doubled at an immigration detention centre which feels “like a prison”, inspectors have warned. Fights and assaults
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Home Office ‘wasted’ £15m of taxpayers’ cash on asbestos-filled migrant camp
The Home Office spent £15 million buying a derelict prison contaminated with asbestos amid political pressure to stop housing migrants in hotels, according to Whitehall’s spending watchdog. The Government department
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Asylum seeker died in M1 crash after social worker did not believe his age
An asylum seeker who died after being run over on a motorway slip road was “upset” that a social worker did not believe he was a child, an inquest has
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Two men ran people-smuggling ring from Welsh car wash, court hears
A people-smuggling ring bringing people through Europe was operated by two men from a car wash in Wales, a court has heard. Dilshad Shamo, 41, and Ali Khdir, 40, are
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People smugglers who hid Afghan family of five in rubbish-filled van jailed
Two people smugglers who tried to bring a family-of-five from Afghanistan into the country hidden in a rubbish-filled van have been jailed. The youngest child was “extremely unwell and drifting
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‘Prolific’ people smuggling gang behind 10,000 migrant Channel crossings convicted
The ringleader of a “prolific” people smuggling gang thought to be behind 10,000 Channel crossings has been jailed for 15 years, with a string of other members also convicted. A
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Finding 90 missing asylum-seeking children ‘primary focus’, says minister
A total of 90 asylum-seeking children who went missing from Home Office-run hostels have still not been found, a minister has told Parliament. The update was given by Lord Hanson
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Hundreds of asylum seekers moved off Bibby Stockholm accommodation barge
Hundreds of asylum seekers have been removed from an accommodation barge moored off the Dorset coast ahead of decisions about their future in the UK. Migrants are being transferred from
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