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A general view of D Wing on the official opening of Brook House Immigration Removal Centre in West Sussex, in March 2009
THE Home Office has failed in a bid to challenge a High Court ruling on the terms of an investigation into alleged abuse at scandal-hit Brook House immigration removal centre.
Two former detainees at Brook House, identified only as MA and BB, successfully argued that a full independent investigation into “systemic and institutional failures” was needed “to ensure fact-finding, accountability and lesson-learning.”
They brought their case after a BBC Panorama programme, broadcast in September 2017, featured undercover footage of detainees suffering alleged assaults, humiliation and verbal abuse by officers at the G4S-run centre near Gatwick airport.
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