People on Bibby Stockholm treated like ‘cattle’, former workers say

Ex-employees say asylum seekers on barge subjected to rancid food, bed bugs and flooding, and made to ‘feel like scum’

Asylum seekers on the Bibby Stockholm, the controversial barge in Dorset on which one man killed himself, are treated like “cattle” and are made to endure rancid food, bed bugs and flooding, former workers have said.

A pair of ex-employees have spoken publicly for the first time about the putrid state of the vessel, and how asylum seekers have been subjected to power cuts and poor physical conditions.