Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant'
23rd October 2012, 09:53
Nothing too surprising given the company's history but still horrible...if fuckers laid a hand on my wife when she was pregnant, just..ugh, horrible behaviour.
A pregnant woman in a wheelchair was tipped up and had her feet held by staff as she was forcibly removed from the UK, inspectors have said.
G4S staff at Cedars centre near Gatwick used substantial force with significant risk to the unborn child, the Chief Inspector of Prisons said in a report.
Nick Hardwick said it was "simply not acceptable to initiate force for such purposes".
G4S said its staff were concerned that the woman risked causing herself harm.
Cedars pre-departure centre for families, which opened last year, replaced the unit at Yarl's Wood in Bedfordshire.
G4S, which failed to lay on enough security staff for the London 2012 Olympic Games, provides security for the UK Border Agency (UKBA) at the centre, in Pease Pottage, West Sussex.
The pregnant woman was given a wheelchair to help her in the departures area.
When she resisted "substantial force" was used by G4S staff and the wheelchair "was tipped up with staff holding her feet".
"At one point she slipped down from the chair and the risk of injury to the unborn child was significant," the report said.
"There is no safe way to use force against a pregnant woman and to initiate it for the purpose of removal is to take an unacceptable risk."
Force was used against six out of the 39 families, including two children, at the centre, which holds families for up to a week, the report said.
(More at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-20035679)
A pregnant woman in a wheelchair was tipped up and had her feet held by staff as she was forcibly removed from the UK, inspectors have said.
G4S staff at Cedars centre near Gatwick used substantial force with significant risk to the unborn child, the Chief Inspector of Prisons said in a report.
Nick Hardwick said it was "simply not acceptable to initiate force for such purposes".
G4S said its staff were concerned that the woman risked causing herself harm.
Cedars pre-departure centre for families, which opened last year, replaced the unit at Yarl's Wood in Bedfordshire.
G4S, which failed to lay on enough security staff for the London 2012 Olympic Games, provides security for the UK Border Agency (UKBA) at the centre, in Pease Pottage, West Sussex.
The pregnant woman was given a wheelchair to help her in the departures area.
When she resisted "substantial force" was used by G4S staff and the wheelchair "was tipped up with staff holding her feet".
"At one point she slipped down from the chair and the risk of injury to the unborn child was significant," the report said.
"There is no safe way to use force against a pregnant woman and to initiate it for the purpose of removal is to take an unacceptable risk."
Force was used against six out of the 39 families, including two children, at the centre, which holds families for up to a week, the report said.
(More at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-20035679)