Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre, 2015. Demotix/Mark Kerrison All rights reserved.
Immigration contractors put an 84 year old man in an ambulance with his hand cuffed on a “three or four foot long escort chain” to a security guard because he was an “escape risk”. The man died hours later, an inquest at West London Coroner’s Court heard yesterday.
Alois Dvorzak, a retired electrical engineer from Canada, was detained by UK immigration authorities in January 2013 when he landed at Gatwick on a one-way ticket. He was trying to visit his daughter in Slovenia but had no contact details for her, no luggage and 1,400 dollars in his pockets.
