Squeezed into a taxi with several other migrants – some of whom are in the boot – two Sudanese migrants rescued by the Royal Navy yesterday headed for Britain.

Less than 24 hours after stepping off HMS Bulwark, and after only the most basic of security checks, they simply strolled out of an Italian refugee camp.

Hamad Said and his friend Abdul Fatah, both 26, were among 1,100 rescued migrants who received food and water aboard the British assault ship before being taken to the Sicilian port of Catania on Monday.

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A recently rescued migrant clambers into a car near the camp in Cara Minero in Sicily on his way to the UK

The man is forced to clamber into the boot of the car as all of the seats have been taken by other migrants

The battered car will deliver the migrants to the ferry port before getting a bus to Rome and then to France

Once ashore they were taken to a camp where they were once again fed and even given new clothes by Italian officials.

But yesterday afternoon, totally unchallenged, they walked out of the camp to begin their journey to London.

They shared a taxi with another group of migrants back to Catania where they boarded a bus headed for Rome.

The pair then plan to make their way to Calais, with the help of people-smugglers, where they will attempt to sneak aboard a lorry bound for London.

People can cross on foot from Italy to France along several miles of the border without any checks.

It was revealed yesterday that Italian authorities have been forced to put on more buses to Rome to cope with the sudden influx of migrants heading north.

Migrant Hamad Said, pictured, recently saved by HMS Bulwark strolls out of the refugee camp in Italy

Said and his friend Abdal Fatah, from the Sudan are waiting on the side of the road to get to Calais

Speaking to the Daily Mail about his plan yesterday, Mr Said said: ‘I don’t stay here in Sicily. I am going to England with my friend Abdul.

‘I am getting a taxi to Catania and from there to Rome and after that to France and then England.’

The Manchester United fan then ran from the gates of Cara Mineo camp and jumped into the back of a silver Seat estate car with German plates, already packed with at least seven other migrants.

Figures released yesterday revealed 100,000 migrants have successfully made the crossing from Libya to Italy since January alone – but only 40,000 of them are still in the country.

Once placed in camps in Sicily, they are free to leave at any point – even though most are travelling without passports.

Most of the others are thought to be heading for northern Europe, taking advantage of lax border controls to reach countries Britain or Germany.

Save the Children last night warned the situation in the camps was ‘at breaking point’, with more desperate families making the journey to flee war and find a better life.

Royal Navy chiefs believe that there are half-a-million migrants waiting for the chance to cross the Med

Mr Said said he paid people smugglers $2,000 to cross the Mediterranean with 377 other migrants

The warning came as officials at Central Catania bus station last night said the number of passengers had doubled in recent months.

Most of the 150 seats on two buses were full of migrants making their own way to Rome. But for many, the capital was just a stopgap.

Some tourists even gave up their seats for the migrants.

Royal Navy chiefs have estimated another half a million are still waiting in war-torn Libya to make the perilous 260-mile journey across the Mediterranean.

Many of them, like Hamad and Abdul, had crossed the Sahara to Libya for work, only to find the country in midst of civil war.

A year ago, Mr Said left his wife Sundy , 23, who was then pregnant with his seven-month-old daughter Dalia, and his job as a blacksmith in Darfur, Sudan.

He and Abdul hired a car to drive across the Sahara to Tripoli.

He said: ‘Last year I went to Libya because of the war in Darfur. I left my mother and my wife.

‘She was pregnant. I want to bring her to live with me in England. ’

He said he worked in Tripoli but life was very hard and there were lots of shootings.

He said: ‘I left Libya because it was not good. I paid 2,000 dollars to make the crossing. ’ Then on Saturday night, carrying nothing but a mobile phone without a sim card and 15 euros, he stepped foot on a double-decked wooden boot with 377 other migrants and set sail for Europe. I had no papers, no passport, nothing. The journey was very dangerous. ’

Ten hours into the journey he was rescued by the Royal Marine Commandos who had spotted the vessel from their Merlin Helicopter. Just over three hours later he stepped barefoot on to HMS Bulwark, a 19-000 tonne vessel, and was drinking bottled water and eating bread.

1,100 other migrants followed him and Abdul on the busiest ever Mediterranean rescue undertaken by the ship. He had been assigned a number and had was asked for his name, age, and told to point where he was from on a map.

Those details were then sent on to the Italian authorities who stamped his hand and took his photograph after he departed the ship the following afternoon.

They waited for over an hour to get on a bus and travelled for an hour to the camp, a former military base, in the middle of nowhere in the hills of Catania.

At the camp Hamad was asked him for his name and age and then after a good night’s sleep he walked out of the camp and waited on the road for a taxi.

He said: ‘I am going to Rome. I am going to Britain.’

Bingo, yoga and jewellery making sessions - then foreign criminals can walk out of UK camp: Inspectors deliver scathing verdict on record of Yarl's Wood detention centre

By JAMES SLACK

Foreign criminals have been treated to dance classes, yoga and bingo at an immigration removal centre... before being released back on to Britain’s streets.

Also on offer were dress and jewellery making sessions, treatments at a beauty salon and parties for Valentine’s Day and Shrove Tuesday.

Inspectors last night delivered a scathing verdict on the record of the Yarl’s Wood centre, where suspected illegal immigrants are held supposedly pending deportation.

Inspectors last night delivered a damning verdict on the Yarl's Wood detention centre, pictured

Of 4,635 people held in the centre last year, only a third were sent home. The remaining two-thirds were either permitted to remain in the UK or bailed.

The Independent Monitoring Board, a watchdog that checks conditions inside prisons and removal centres, said that, in one particularly shocking case, a foreign criminal from China was held for 800 days and then let go.

It has been estimated that a place at the centre costs £30,000 a year, meaning that woman alone would have cost the taxpayer around £70,000.

The IMB said it was concerned the wrong people were being held. Those sent to the centre in Bedfordshire included pregnant women, the mentally ill and foreign criminals from inside the EU – who it is fiendishly difficult to deport.

But inspectors found that, despite campaigners dubbing Yarl’s Wood a ‘prison camp’, staff provided a ‘varied timetable of activities throughout the week’ to keep detainees entertained.

They include afternoon football sessions, and cricket matches in the summer. The IMB report says: ‘The Sports Hall offers a varied timetable of activities throughout the week from afternoon football sessions for men to the Music in Detention choir, as well as bingo, yoga, and zumba (a type of dance). Full use is made of the hall for events like Children in Need, Valentine’s Day, Christmas quiz evenings, and detainees of all ages are encouraged to participate.

‘The range of artefacts created is ever-growing. In 2014 detainees crafted photo frames, bracelets, cushions, paper roses, 3D origami, T-shirts, watches, greetings cards, clay ornaments and wood craft , and even began dressmaking, following the donation of fabric suitable for use as skirts.’

Many of the items made are sold for 50p, with the money going to charity.

Staff also offer a wide range of international cuisine in the centre’s ‘Café Central’ to reflect the fact that, at any one time, there are 50 nationalities staying there.

Immigrants awaiting deportation have access to a range of activities, pictured, while they await their fate

There is also an ‘extremely popular’ hair salon. The report says: ‘Among the Asian population threading and hair colour treatments are the most popular, while African and Caribbean detainees tend to opt for hair extensions and manicures.’

The report comes less than a week after 400 protesters held a demonstration for the ‘prison camp’ to be closed immediately. The demonstrators chanted: ‘Detention centres will fall, brick by brick, wall by wall.’

Actress Juliet Stevenson, who starred in films such as Bend it Like Beckham and Truly, Madly, Deeply, said at last Saturday’s protest: ‘They really are poisonous institutions so they should shut.’

A petition calling for a debate in Parliament to end immigration detention has now attracted more than 100,000 signatures.

Yarl’s Wood has been dogged by controversy in recent years. Two members of staff were recently suspended after an undercover Channel 4 investigation found staff referring to the inmates as ‘animals’.