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Paradise lost? British government urged to investigate 'climate of fear' on Turks and Caicos

Witnesses too frightened to give evidence as intimidation and brutality grip the idyllic islands By Bridget Morris

LURID tales of corruption, intimidation and brutality on far-flung paradise islands owned by Britain have triggered calls for an urgent Foreign Office inquiry into the way that UK overseas territories govern themselves.