McGuffin is right to flag up minister's deception

At last the plight of the women and children in Yarl's Wood detention centre is being publicly aired.

Yarl's Wood is not a family-friendly place.

Yet Home Office Minister Meg Hillier would have us believe this is the case.

Indeed Sir Al Ainsley Green has stated that it is no fit place for children.

And mothers certainly do not go on hunger strike lightly as some would wish to have us believe.

Frances Laing and I have felt so disturbed by the inhumane treatment towards these women, who have already faced rape and murder, that we have just made a joint citizen's complaint to the Parliamentary Commission for Standards.

I agree with Mr Duffy of Public Interest Lawyers.

He says there is a culture of disbelief and contempt that permeates the whole system of immigration detention.

This culture is certainly not being acted out in our name.

And these highly vulnerable women are experiencing the consequences of that inhumane culture.

That is what is happening in detention centres such as Yarl's Wood.

Joan Meredith Malpas