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90% of immigration detainees visiting hospital were handcuffed, inquest hears

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.”

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Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre, 2015. Demotix/Mark Kerrison All rights reserved.

Nine out ten people in immigration detention centres were taken to hospital in handcuffs, an inquest into the death of Alois Dvorzak heard yesterday.

Dvorzak, a frail 84 year old, was taken to Hillingdon Hospital in handcuffs twice. He died there on the second visit, on 10 February 2013. Dvorzak was shackled to a security guard by a six foot long chain for more than five hours before he took his last breath.