An MRI brain scan that was wrongly cancelled might have led to life-saving treatment for Bruno Dos Santos, who died aged 25 in the care of UK immigration authorities.
The death of Alois Dvorzak exposes increased shackling of immigration detainees, as commercial contractors fear financial penalties that follow escapes.
Dvorzak inquest. Day 8: Juror: Should arrangements for vulnerable detainees have been in place a long time ago?Home Office official: “Yes. I don't know why they weren’t.”
Coroner: “But Mr Dvorzak had chest pains. Why was he still handcuffed?”Security company employee: “I can’t justify a comment on that.”West London Coroner’s Court, 23 October 2015.
The for-profit escort company Tascor told a worried medic that a frail old man’s removal from Britain “could not be aborted unless there was resistance”, an inquest jury hears.
Manager of a UK for-profit detention centre tells inquest jury: “There was no room for discretion. Challenging it would have slowed him going to hospital.”
