Amid growing controversy over the conditions in which large numbers of people were bussed away from the overcrowded camp, the Home Office insisted it only released asylum seekers who told staff they had family or friends they could stay with. However, two people from Afghanistan told the Guardian they were flown to London with no clear idea of ​​where they could stay. They describe scenes of hasty confusion as staff led them on buses to the holding center before being dropped off at Victoria train station. Their words can be revealed hours after Home Secretary Suella Braverman visited the center near Ramsgate on Thursday amid calls for her to review her position on conditions in the camp. Lawyers on behalf of the charity Detention Action and a woman detained at Manston have sent an urgent precautionary action letter to the Home Office. It is the first lawsuit against the home secretary for “unlawful treatment of people detained in the facility”. In a further development, Braverman is facing demands from London mayor Sadiq Khan to launch an urgent review into how dozens of people have been abandoned in the capital. A young asylum seeker from Afghanistan was among the group of 11 left on the street outside Victoria station on Tuesday night. He said he had told Home Office staff during an interview before leaving the camp that he had no relatives or acquaintances in the UK. “They asked me if I had any friends or family and I said I had none in England,” he said. He was later asked by officials which city he would like to go to and said he would like to go to London, assuming he would be provided with accommodation. A group of migrants were picked up from Kent and stranded at Victoria station in London. Photo: Danial Abbas He was among a group of about 40 people who were bussed into central London on Tuesday. Most of them managed to stay with families, but some stayed on the street outside the station, wearing flip flops and blankets for warmth, until they were helped by volunteers from Under One Sky, which delivers food to homeless people on the streets of the central London. The young man, who asked not to be named, said he asked the bus driver where he should go as they arrived at Victoria Station. “I thought there would be a hotel for us. He said, “Go where you want to go, it’s not my responsibility.” I told the driver that I have no address or relatives. He said, “There’s nothing I can do for you.” The asylum seeker said he was 15 but had been age-assessed by the Home Office during his 25 days in Manston immigration detention and registered as 20. He said he had been worried to find himself in London with nowhere to stay. “I was very scared. I hadn’t eaten anything. It was almost 12 o’clock at night and we stayed on the road. There were many of us on the bus who didn’t have family or friends to stay with,” he said. Volunteers from Under One Sky contacted the Home Office and the 11 homeless asylum seekers were later picked up by a taxi and taken to a hotel in Norwich. He said that Interior Ministry staff had not returned his belongings to him before he left the camp, so he had been without his mobile phone and unable to contact his family for about a month since he left France and crossed into boat in the UK. He said he thought his parents would be very worried about him. Archie Bland and Nimo Omer take you to the top stories and what they mean, free every weekday morning Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain information about charities, online advertising and content sponsored by external parties. For more information, see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. A Home Office spokesman said: “The welfare of those in our care is of the utmost importance and asylum seekers are only released from Manston when we have assurances that they have accommodation to go to. Any other suggestion is wrong. We worked at a pace to find accommodation for the individuals as soon as we were informed and they are now being supported.” But a second asylum seeker, also from Afghanistan, said there were about 15 people on a bus sent from Manston to London on Saturday afternoon who also had nowhere to stay. He said he thought some asylum seekers may have been confused during the rushed process of removing people from Manston. During a formal interview – conducted through a translator – with Home Office staff last week, he was asked if he had family or friends he could stay with. “I said I had a friend’s phone number in London. Early on Saturday they came to my tent and called out the number on my wristband and told me to get on the bus to London,” he said. There were no translators on hand as people boarded the bus and some asked if they were being taken to a hotel. “They said yes yes, but maybe they didn’t understand what we were asking,” said the asylum seeker. The 20-year-old former policeman, who also asked not to be named, had worked with international forces in Afghanistan before the Taliban returned to power. He said he had fled the country after his parents were killed by the Taliban last year. “I was shocked that I was left without help. Cold. I was hungry and wondering how to solve it,” he said. He didn’t have a phone and asked a passerby to help him call a friend, who came to pick him up. He said about 15 people on the bus had nowhere to go and planned to spend the night at Victoria bus station. Conditions at Manston were very difficult while he was there. “There were about 170 or 180 people sleeping in one tent. there were no beds, we slept on the floor,” he said. He and many others in his tent had contracted an itchy rash in the days before he was bussed to London. he said this may have been a result of poor sanitation in the camp. “There were three toilets, which were very dirty. There were two showers but one wasn’t working so it was hard to shower with so many people. There was no washing machine and I couldn’t wash the clothes I wore for the week and a half I was there. Most people had a bad itch on their body.” He is currently sleeping on the floor of a friend’s rented room in a house. “I am happy to be in England. I feel safe here. But I don’t know how long I can live on the floor of my friend’s room,” he said.