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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Holly Evans

UNCOVERED: Inside the depraved world of migrant hunters using disturbing tactics to track down asylum hotels | History Defined

You’re a traitor.” Those were the words heckled last week to a driver pulling into RAF Wethersfield, a former Ministry of Defence airbase in Essex currently being used to house asylum seekers.

Livestreamed from an iPhone to tens ofthousands of people online, the clip shows a group of so-called migrant hunters hurling abuse at the driver, presumed to be a worker at the airbase, and threatening to publish his car’s number plate.

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