For Amir, a refugee living in Home Office-funded accommodation, seeing people attempt suicide has become almost routine. He has been in Wethersfield, a former RAF base being used to house asylum seekers, for four months. In that time, he estimated he has seen 10 people try to take their own lives.
“Some have tried to jump off the buildings, others try to hang themselves in the rooms, one tried to hurt himself in the kitchen, and one took too many pills,” he told The Independent in a cafe in Braintree – a town that’s a short bus ride from the Essex site.
