The boss of a firm which made a fortune housing asylum seekers in conditions described as squalid has spent £1.1million on a mansion.
Former Army major James Vyvyan-Robinson, 64, and his wife Nicola splashed out on a new home in Perthshire.Vyvyan-Robinson is managing director of Clearsprings Ready Homes, which raked in £28million of profits last year.
It is contracted by the Home Office to run hotels and other accommodation for asylum seekers. But some sites – such as Napier Barracks in Folkestone, Kent – have been dogged by criticism.
When Covid struck, residents protested about sharing with those who were infected.After a visit in February by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Immigration Detention, MPs and peers called for the barracks to be shut down.
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