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Carlington Spencer: another death in UK immigration detention

Last year six people died in or shortly after transfer from immigration lock-up. Carlington Spencer, held at Morton Hall, died aged 38. This is his story. Part one.

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Faces of man and woman, smiling

Carlington and Laura (Family)

Laura is 33 and lives in a small terrace house on the edge of Derby. One Thursday in September last year she finally got her baby daughter home — she’d been born 10 weeks early and spent four weeks in the hospital. Back at home, Laura felt like normal life was about to begin again.