84 year old immigration detainee was handcuffed and chained as he lay dying in hospital. Dvorzak Inquest, Day 6.
Today former detainees and their supporters gather to protest at the former prison in South Lanarkshire.
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.”
Detention centre healthcare, by commercial contrator Primecare, was “extremely basic” and unsafe, court hears.
Days before his death, a frail old Canadian man slept on chairs in a Gatwick Airport holding room, a court heard yesterday.
Story exposing UK government’s failures to protect victims of trafficking judged “best news piece” on modern slavery.
• Another man dies at The Verne, an isolated detention centre in Dorset• The Samaritans said Verne was too dangerous to visit• Chief inspector of prisons concludes Verne is “satisfactory”
If we replace “migrant” with “desperate and terrified person” do we see something different? A nurse and psychotherapist writes.
A lawyer argues that the UK is moving from immigration control to migrant exploitation.
Men with strong family ties to the UK are being forcibly removed on ghost flights, leaving pregnant partners and young children behind.
