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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Diane Taylor

Robert Jenrick has cartoon murals painted over at children’s asylum centre

Mickey and Minnie Mouse and Tom & Jerry paintings in a waiting room at the centre
The Kent intake unit is a reception centre for unaccompanied child asylum seekers, some of whom are as young as nine. Photograph: HM Chief Inspector of Prisons

Murals of cartoon characters including Mickey Mouse and Baloo from The Jungle Book painted on the walls of an asylum seeker reception centre to welcome children have been removed on the orders of the immigration minister, Robert Jenrick.

The murals were painted over because he thought they were too welcoming and sent the wrong message.

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