Covert footage, The Verne, 6 March, 2015 (@Standoffilms)
A 30-year-old man was found dead at the Verne Immigration Removal Centre on 6 August. The man, named by fellow detainees as Thomas Kirungi, was a Ugandan national and an asylum seeker. Detainees say he took his own life, and allege that healthcare staff refused to give him his antidepressants the night before. A witness who tried to tell this to detectives investigating the death was quickly moved to a different detention centre, detainees claim.
This is the second death at The Verne in 14 months. The detention centre, a converted fortress on the Isle of Portland, holds almost 600 men, over half of them ex-prisoners.
