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SECURITY firm Serco was showered in glitter yesterday to highlight the abysmal treatment of immigrants locked up in Yarl’s Wood.
Five Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants (LGSM) activists, dressed in masks and wigs, “glitter bombed” the security firm’s headquarters in solidarity with the refugees detained at the centre awaiting deportation.
Yarl’s Wood — branded a place of “national concern” by a government review — has been accused of employing guards that assault, sexually harass and medically neglect detainees, of which around 90 per cent are women.
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