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London doctor: ‘We receive a lot of patients from detention centres. Quite often they’re cuffed.’

84 year old immigration detainee was handcuffed and chained as he lay dying in hospital. Dvorzak Inquest, Day 6.

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

An employee of the American prisons company GEO Group told a London inquest yesterday that it was a matter of “routine” to handcuff immigration detainees receiving treatment at an NHS hospital.

And a doctor at Hillingdon Hospital told the inquest: “We receive a lot of patients from detention centres and quite often they’re cuffed.”