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Cancelled brain scan could have saved UK immigration detainee

Inquest, Day Four: Neurologist testifies that he might have saved 25 year old Bruno Dos Santos.

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Dorchester County Court (Phil Miller)

A missed brain scan could have led to potentially life saving treatment for a young man who died in immigration detention, an inquest jury heard yesterday.

Bruno Dos Santos, a 25 year old Angolan, died suddenly at the Verne prison in Dorset on 4 June 2014, alone in his cell.