BBC reveals physical, sexual abuse at asylum detention centre in Britain

0 Comments | AFP, March, 2005

LONDON (AFP) — An undercover BBC documentary will show how private security guards in Britain's immigration system have assaulted and sexually abused asylum-seekers and immigrants.

Excerpts of the film, aired on Tuesday evening, showed guards shouting racial remarks at cowering inmates, bragging about their sexual conquests and admitting to physical violence.

In one secretly filmed scene, security guard Jason Martin warns an ill-looking detainee at Oakington detention centre in Cambridgeshire, eastern England, to get out of bed before "I do you some damage".

The skinheaded Martin, nick-named Wolfie, then tips the man out of bed after saying: "My great-grandfather shot your great-grandfather and nicked his fucking country off you for 200 years. I'm not to be...