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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Diane Taylor

Manston asylum centre was ‘overcrowded, squalid and insanitary’, inquiry hears

entrance to the centre showing a red and white barrier, security staff in hi-vis yellow vests, a blue sign in front of a checkpoint, and several low-rise buildings behind high wire.
Home Office officials have admitted they lost their grip on the situation at the Manston detention centre in Thanet, Kent. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

A detention centre in Kent that processed the claims of asylum seekers who had arrived in the UK on small boats was “overcrowded, squalid and insanitary”, a public inquiry has heard.

The hearing is investigating the decisions, actions and circumstances which led to the conditions experienced by those detained at Manston between 1 June 2022 and 22 November 2022.

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