HOUSING asylum-seekers on the Bibby Stockholm “floating prison” would be inhumane and risks retraumatising people who have escaped war zones and other horrors, a refugee charity warned today.

Care4Calais chief executive Steve Smith raised fears that the barge being prepared to accommodate more than 500 refugees at Portland, Dorset, is an “accident waiting to happen” because of insufficient fire safety on board with the government putting money as a “higher priority than people’s lives.”

It follows a warning by the Fire Brigades Union that the site is a “potential deathtrap.”