Some teatime reading
There are many stories from this great nation of ours. Here’s another one to make your heart swell with something or other.
Let me tell you the Ballad of Beatrice Guessie.
They came for young Beatrice in the dead of the night
Taking her back to Cameroon on the next available flight
The immigration officer, three guards and the doctor
They hadn’t got far before they’d threatened to clock her.
On boarding the plane, she started to shout
A coat over her head, a hand over her mouth
Kicked in the legs and head between knees
Her escorts didn’t do much to put her at ease.
Changing planes in Paris, she decided to run
A French copper caught her and knelt on her bum
They all pinned her down, in spite of her pleading
She was kneed in the groin (causing vaginal bleeding).
Arriving in Africa, in a hell of a state
Beatrice with her escorts were stopped at the gates
Cameroon’s immigration rejected their claim
With ‘if she dies in prison, then we’ll get the blame’.
Still bruised and still bleeding, they put her back in Yarl’s Wood
There’s an Early Day Motion for the great and the good
Nineteen have signed, condemning the thuggery
That’s one sixth of the number celebrating the rugby.
Write to the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.
Update: But it’s all going to be ok, hopefully some time next year:
The Home Office says it will change the way abuse allegations against immigration staff are handled following criticisms from a government watchdog.
The Border and Immigration Agency’s Complaints Audit Committee said immigrants’ and asylum seekers’ complaints were often not followed up.
It found just 8% of complainants were interviewed and 89% of investigations were “neither balanced nor thorough”.
Posted on November 14th, 2007 at 5:50pm under Human rights, UK politics
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