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‘Mental illness epidemic hits asylum seekers in Scotland’

The head of a leading charity has accused the Government of deliberately ignoring an epidemic of poor mental health among asylum seekers, because admitting it would mean allowing greater numbers to stay in the country.

Lesley Benzie, chief executive of Lifelink, was speaking a week after three Russian asylum seekers leapt to their deaths from a tower block in Glasgow’s Red Road.