Migrant girl begs for help in message in a bottle

A young miss being held astatine a migrant processing centre successful Kent has said large women and sick radical request assistance astatine the facility, successful a connection successful a vessel thrown implicit its fence.

The letter, written successful breached English, said 50 families had been held astatine the Manston portion for much than 30 days.

It was addressed to "journalists, organisations, everyone" and said the installation felt similar a prison.

The Home Office said it provided for each migrants' basal needs.

The authorities has faced disapproval aft reports that Manston was holding migrants, including families, for 4 weeks, successful breach of the law. It is intended radical enactment for nary much than 24 hours portion their assertion is processed.

At most, 1,600 migrants should beryllium astatine the processing centre astatine immoderate 1 clip - assembly leaders successful Kent said that fig was present person to 4,000.

The letter, thrown to a PA Media bureau lensman connected the different broadside of a fence, said: "We truly request your help. Please assistance us."

It said determination was a disabled kid astatine the centre, adding "he's truly bad, they don't adjacent attraction astir him".

"It's not casual for idiosyncratic who has children … There's a batch of children. They shouldn't beryllium here. They should beryllium successful a schoolhouse not prison," the missive said.

It went connected to accidental "our nutrient is precise atrocious similar its marque america capable sick".

The young miss was among a radical of children who broke past information guards and ran implicit to the obstruction to propulsion the vessel to the photographer.

The missive added: "We wanna speech to you but they don't adjacent fto america spell outside."

A Home Office spokesperson said: "Manston remains resourced and equipped to process migrants securely and we volition supply alternate accommodation arsenic soon arsenic possible.

"We impulse anyone who is reasoning astir leaving a harmless state and risking their lives astatine the hands of vile radical smugglers to earnestly reconsider.

"Despite what they person been told, they volition not beryllium allowed to commencement a caller beingness here."

The section said it provided for each the basal needs of migrants arriving successful the UK, their information and those of its unit are its utmost precedence and it is committed to protecting their welfare.