Asylum seekers queue for the one canteen at Napier Barracks in Folkestone where they're being kept
AN ASYLUM-SEEKER staying in a former army camp in Kent has described the facility as “like living in a prison:” he hasn’t left the site for two weeks due to intimidation from the far right.
More than 400 people are now being held at Napier Barracks in Folkestone, which was reopened as emergency accommodation for asylum-seekers last month.
A resident of the barracks — who asked to be identified as MS to protect his identity — told the Star about the poor conditions in the barracks, where people with mental-health issues scream during the night and far-right agitators hurl abuse at the residents from outside the gates.
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10
