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• ‘They just vanish’: whistleblowers met by wall of complacency over missing migrant children

  21-01-2023 19:14
  
  As scores of youngsters are disappearing from hotels run by the Home Office and being trafficked across the country, sources claims warnings over their safety were ignoredOn the first day of April, 17-year-old Wassim Hamam* disappeared near the bustling centre of Hove. He was never seen again. Days later another teenager, Burim Markaj, 16, vanished nearby. Within hours, a 15-year-old was also reported missing.The disappearances continued. Four days later Alban Berisha, a 17-year-old whose portra
  
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• Revealed: scores of child asylum seekers kidnapped from Home Office hotel

  21-01-2023 19:14
  
  Call for inquiry after Observer investigation uncovers scale of trafficking by criminal gangsDozens of asylum-seeking children have been kidnapped by gangs from a Brighton hotel run by the Home Office in a pattern apparently being repeated across the south coast, an Observer investigation can reveal.A whistleblower, who works for Home Office contractor Mitie, and child protection sources describe children being abducted off the street outside the hotel and bundled into cars. Continue reading...
  
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