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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Mark Townsend Home Affairs Editor

Child migrants to be sent back to hotel where 136 vanished

The silhouette of a young woman in a darkened room
There are fears the missing youngsters have been taken by gangs and coerced into criminality. Photograph: Anna Gowthorpe/PA

A notorious Brighton hotel from where scores of children were kidnapped is to be reopened by the Home Office to house unaccompanied youngsters again, leaked internal memos reveal.

The Home Office was forced to empty a string of hotels for unaccompanied children after the Observer revealed that huge numbers were going missing, with many having been abducted by criminal gangs.

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