Detainees inside Campsfield House have this morning told the Oxford Mail the scale of the riot.

One 27-year-old detainee said: "Everyone went mad and broke everything up. They broke everything - lights, cameras, toilets, showers."

Another detainee, who shares a room with David Osagie, the detainee removed this morning which led to the outbreak of violence, said the rioting last for about 20 minutes but added the atmosphere still wasn't calm.

He said: "He was on the top bunk of the bed and they dragged him down.

"About five officers were holding us down, preventing us from interfering.

"They just came running in like in the movies.

"I was scared because I did not know what was going on. He was screaming.

"After they took him away forcefully everyone was angry.

"It just escalated from there. There was a confrontation with the officers. There was just anger.

"It's not calm now. There is no way it can be calm. It's not nice. I don't think it will be calm now because people are still angry.

"There are no lights, the toilets have been flooded and the cameras have been broken." A 39-year-old fellow detainee added: "Early this morning somebody was shouting and screaming.

"This man was being dragged kicking and beating. There is blood all over the floor. People are trying to pull this place down.

"There's no lighting, there's flooding - that's the reaction to what happened this morning.

"Everybody is angry. It has not stopped. For every action there is a reaction. I think almost everybody was involved.

"There was fire. They were setting fire to the blankets. They smashed the cameras. They turned the place upside down."

Police spokesman Victoria Bartlett said: "We were called to Campsfield House near Kidlington at 6.20am today after reports of a disturbance inside.

"Officers are currently on the scene and we are assisting staff from Campsfield House in securing the perimeter of the building."