OFFICERS at a detention centre frequently mocked and laughed at detainees who’d taken dangerous levels of the drug known as spice, an inquiry heard today. 

During one incident, a Brook House officer is filmed dismissing concerns about a detainee who’d taken too much of the substance saying: “I’ve got no sympathy for them at all. If he dies he dies.”

Footage of the incident was shown at a hearing on Thursday for an inquiry investigating mistreatment of detainees at Brook House, near Crawley in Sussex.

It showed officers responding to a man retching and groaning on the floor before being taken to the centre’s medical wing.  

While being treated, surrounding officers, including managers, can be heard laughing at the man, despite a nurse saying that his heart rate had rocketed to 178 beats per minute.

One officer can be heard shouting: “Does your face taste nice, because you appear to be chewing it off!” while another repeatedly hurls insults at him, including: “Div.”

Former Brook House officer Callum Tulley, who filmed the incident, told the inquiry that medical emergencies linked to spice were a common occurrence at the centre. 

The whistleblower, who is now a BBC reporter, described another spice attack just a days few later, in which an ambulance had to be called. 

The detainee was “fitting, he was having seizures, he was frothing at the mouth, he was being sick,” he said. 

Nurses who treated the detainee commented that it was “only a matter of time before someone is taken out in a body bag because of their reaction to spice,” Mr Tulley said. 

During an earlier hearing, Mr Tulley said a young detainee was used as a guinea pig by older detainees to test a batch of spice. 

The inquiry also heard today that there was a high level of anti-immigrant rhetoric among staff at the centre. 

Mr Tulley said he spoke to an officer on the day of the Grenfell Tower fire, who told him: “Oh well at least that’s a few less foreigners in England.” 

Another said that he did not like London, saying: “Spot the white person when you go to London.”

On another occasion officers spoke about wanting detainees to be deported with “tape over their mouth, bag over their heads.”

The whistleblower has previously described a “toxic culture” at the then G4S-run immigration removal centre.