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Racism and Facism in Brief; UK: Asylum centre custody officer was fascist election candidate.

01 March 2003

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A local newspaper, the Bedford Times & Citizen, has exposed a custody officer working at Yarl's Wood asylum detention centre as a former British National Party (BNP) election candidate. Richard Green, from Goldington, joined the BNP in 2000 and told the newspaper that he allowed his membership to lapse before he was employed by security firm Group 4 in November 2002. However, his membership of the BNP was not considered an impediment as he was vetted for the job, and employed as a detention custody officer and physical training instructor. The North East Bedfordshire MP Alistair Burt has demanded that the government explain how a man with his "political view of immigrants and the immigration process" was employed. He said: "I am surprised someone with a BNP background would be considered appropriate to work at Yarl's Wood and will ask ministers about vetting processes to see if they consider sufficient safeguards are in pace." Bedford Times & Citizen 4.4.03.

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