Asylum accommodation whistleblowers have claimed three teenage Iranian asylum seekers went on holiday to their home country to visit family and enjoy watersports despite claiming to have fled because of persecution. Three Kurdish-Iranian asylum seekers returned on holiday to their country of origin on separate occassions funded by another migrant, two housing workers told the Express.
After a spate of trips last year by teenagers from accommodation in Derbyshire, East Midlands, the two former employees of housing provider Framework claimed their concerns about the young men, who’d all arrived in Britain by small boat, were “brushed aside.”
Housing officer Darren Jennings, 50, claims he was “made to feel like a racist” after deciding to blow the whistle on the holidays, which involved watersports and Eid celebrations.
“If you’re saying you’ve left the country because it’s unsafe and then you’re choosing to travel back there it doesn’t make sense,” he told the Express. “The countries they said they were going to have a history of terrorism, people smuggling and drug [trafficking].”