Lounging in aircraft seats and surrounded by Home Office guards, the foreign men fresh out of British jails are on the way to the Middle East on a deportation flight from London.
They don't want to leave, they could kick up at any minute, so everything is being done to please them.
On the way to the plane at three in the morning, the guards stopped their van with the deportees on board to pick up burgers at an all-night fast-food outlet to 'give them a treat' after months, even years, of prison fodder.
As the flight got under way, nicotine chewing gum was handed out to those who felt a craving for a cigarette. Incongruously, the guards offered all the men a pack of playing cards and a colouring book with crayons so they didn't feel bored during the long-haul journey.
The response from a few was: 'F*** off. We're not in a nursery. We're not children. Leave us alone. We want to sleep.'
