Revealed: scores of child asylum seekers kidnapped from Home Office hotel

Call for inquiry after Observer investigation uncovers scale of trafficking by criminal gangsDozens of asylum-seeking children have been kidnapped by gangs from a Brighton hotel run by the Home Office in a pattern apparently being repeated across the south coast, an Observer investigation can reveal.A whistleblower, who works for Home Office contractor Mitie, and child protection sources describe children being abducted off the street outside the hotel and bundled into cars.