Thread by @AdamWagner1

This is very troubling footage. These are not detainees. I am dubious that there is a legal basis for the police using force. There is a power under the self-isolation regulations to use reasonable force to return somebody to the place they are supposed to be isolating ... /1

https://twitter.com/simonjonesnews/status/1356927531631472640

but as far as I know, people at barracks weren’t given formal notifications to self isolate (I hear people tested but not given results/ a letter sent by ‘Ready Homes’ telling them to self-isolate prob isn’t formal notification) and therefore there was no power of enforcement /2

In any case, I can’t see how the police can have known who was legally required to self isolate and who was not. We do not know the full facts but it is plausible the police have unlawfully assaulted this man

Regulations are here, see regs 2 and 10: legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1045… /3

Generally, I have heard a number of troubling things about how the self isolation rules are being managed both at Napier and other places where asylum seekers are housed. Entirely possible the police and the Home Office do not understand the limits of the self isolation rules /4