The Home Office has still not implemented measures to prevent deaths at a Heathrow immigration removal centre recommended after two suicide attempts four years ago, documents suggest.
Liberty Investigates and openDemocracy have obtained minutes and slides from meetings discussing self-harm incidents at Heathrow’s two IRCs, Harmondsworth and Colnbrook, where 39-year-old Frank Ospina died in March. The documents appear to contain the first official reference to Ospina’s death having been self-inflicted, and shed light on what critics describe as the Home Office’s “complete failure” to identify and protect vulnerable people in detention.
This week we revealed detainees in Harmondsworth staged a protest described by security staff as an “attempted mass suicide” two days after Ospina’s death.
