An investigation reveals vulnerable children are being taken away despite police warningsGANGS HAVE kidnapped multiple child-asylum-seekers from a hotel in Brighton as pressure mounts on the Homes Office to find them, according to an investigationVulnerable children being taken off the streets outside the hotel and bundled into cars came to light following explosive details around the scandal by child protection sources and a Home Office whistleblower who works for contractor Mitie.
Police had already warned Home Office officials that children who had recently arrived in the UK and were seeking asylum would be targeted by criminal networks – many of the vulnerable victims do not have parents or carers. “Children are literally being picked up from outside the building, disappearing and not being found. They’re being taken from the street by traffickers.”
“Suella Braverman [the home secretary] has failed to act on the repeated warnings she has been given about totally inadequate safeguards for children in their care,” she said. However, a Home Office source slammed the reports of vulnerable asylum-seeking children being kidnapped from hotels as “not true”.