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Why handcuff and chain 84 year old in hospital? ‘Home Office policy,’ inquest hears.

Doctor warned that Alois Dvorzak was “at high risk of death in detention”. Inquest, Day 7

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Alois Dvorzak and his wife

Nurses were “shocked” when an 84 year old man arrived at a London hospital chained to a security guard, an inquest into the death of Alois Dvorzak heard today. The six foot long chain was removed only after he stopped breathing five hours later.

Dvorzak, a retired electrical engineer, was rushed to Hillingdon Hospital in an ambulance after complaining of chest pains at Harmondsworth immigration detention centre, near Heathrow.