Unwanted, Unnoticed: an audit of 160 asylum and immigration-related deaths in Europe facing eviction from their flat. The family had warned of intentions to commit suicide. A fatal accident inquiry was ruled out.123 • Eliud Nguli Nyenze (40), 15/04/2010 A Kenyan man died at Oakington removal centre in Cambridge after apparently suffering a heart attack. Campaigners and other detainees alleged that he had been refused medical care. Following his death a disturbance erupted at Oakington and at least 60 people were transferred to prisons. In the days following the death the private company that runs the centre, G4S, was stripped of its British Safety Council award for its ‘commitment to improving health and safety’. An inquest in October 2010 was told that Nyenze had collapsed in his room, and despite earlier complaining that he was unwell, had been refused paracetamol. An ambulance took twenty minutes to reach the centre and the nurse who went to treat him did not take a defibrillator with her.124 • Alan Rasoul Ahmed (21), 02/05/2010 An Iraqi man was found hanged in asylum accommodation in Liverpool. Ahmed had become depressed over the final weeks of his life, he was homesick and wanted to return home to Iraq after his asylum claim was refused, but found himself in limbo and unable to return.125 • Osman Rasul Mohammed (27), 25/07/2010 A Kurdish Iraqi asylum seeker jumped from the seventh floor of a Nottingham tower block. Mohammed had fled Iraq when his father and brother were killed, and had been in the UK since 2001. His asylum claim had been refused, but he was in the process of submitting a fresh claim. Meanwhile, he was destitute, unable to work and reliant on the generosity of friends, many of whom were in a similar situation, and on food parcels from Nottingham and Notts Refugee Forum (NNRF). Police officers had been talking to Mohammed when he placed his hand on his heart, looked up to the sky, and jumped.126 • Alexander Muchero (47), 19/08/10 A Zimbabwean asylum seeker, Muchero died after stepping in front of a train at Widney Manor station, Solihull. An inquest concluded that he took his own life.127 • Jimmy Mubenga (46), 12/10/2010 An Angolan deportee, Mubenga died of positional asphyxia during his deportation from Heathrow Airport. Mubenga, who had lived in the UK legally for seventeen years, had permanent residence, a wife and five British-born children, served a sentence for assault and was told he was to be deported to Angola. He is alleged to have become violent in the aircraft, and three G4S guards restrained him in his seat. Witnesses heard Mubenga saying ‘I can’t breathe’ and ‘They are killing me’, and an inquest jury in 2013 found that he was unlawfully killed as a result of the use of unreasonable force. A jury at the Old Bailey, who were not privy to the inquest finding or the racist text messages exchanged between two of the security guards, acquitted the guards of manslaughter in December 2014.128 • Muhammad Shukat (47), 02/07/2011 A Pakistani migrant. Shukat died in his cell in Colnbrook immigration removal centre (IRC) near London. Shukat became unwell in his cell and collapsed, and was groaning in agony and complaining of very bad chest pains. His cellmate said he raised the alarm immediately, and used the emergency button in their locked cell ten times in an effort to get help. Nursing staff and custody officers attended and carried out health checks but did not call emergency services immediately. Instead, Shukat was told he could see the doctor at 8am, by which point he had had a cardiac arrest. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.129 • Ianos Dragutan (31), 02/08/2011 A Moldovan migrant, Dragutan committed suicide in Campsfield House IRC in Oxfordshire. He had served a three-month prison sentence in Wandsworth for possessing false documents. At Campsfield, he was IRR | European Research Progamme Briefing No. 10 25