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Eric Allison and Simon Hattenstone // Home Office contractors ‘cuffed detained migrants’ inside coach on fire | UK news | The Guardian

22.2.18

Home Office contractors ‘cuffed detained migrants’ inside coach on fire | UK news | The Guardian: In interviews with the Guardian, the detainees said that just minutes before the vehicle exploded and as fumes filled the cabin, one of the guards started handing out handcuffs to his colleagues.

After the cuffing process, which took several minutes, staff working for the Capita-owned security firm Tascor took the detainees off the bus, they said. They were instructed to stand about 40ft away on the M25 as the vehicle exploded.

Home Office rules say that restraint during transit could amount to degrading or inhuman treatment, in breach of the European convention on human rights, “unless risk is properly assessed and the use of restraints fully justified”.


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