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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Diane Taylor

Asylum seekers housed at ex-RAF base tried to kill themselves, study says

View from the air of the Wethersfield airbase
Based on 10 detailed assessments and 140 case studies, the report found the men housed on the site were suffering from a range of mental health problems. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

Asylum seekers housed in the UK’s largest mass accommodation site have attempted to kill themselves and set themselves on fire because of conditions “no different from Libya”, according to a report.

The controversial Wethersfield site, on a remote military airbase near Braintree in Essex, is in the constituency of the home secretary, James Cleverly, who said earlier this year in a social media post that the site was not “appropriate”.

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