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'God forbid if there was a mass escape. People are desperate'

The fires broke out first, then the inmates.

The fires broke out first, then the inmates.

Early last month 26 men escaped from an immigration detention centre called Campsfield House in Oxfordshire. All were foreigners who had finished sentences in British jails and were awaiting deportation.