Unwanted, Unnoticed: an audit of 160 asylum and immigration-related deaths in Europe informed that police wished to question him about a rape allegation dating back a number of years. He hanged himself on the day police came to arrest him at the centre.130 • Bee Moyo (45), 12/03/2012 Moyo, a Zimbabwean asylum seeker, committed suicide in Ferham Park in Leeds. He had been refused asylum, and was unable to provide for his children financially. After an argument with his partner, he left his house saying that he intended to hang himself in nearby woods. Police later searched the park and found that Moyo had indeed hanged himself, but an open verdict on his death found that he may have intended to be found and resuscitated.131 • Bernard Hukwa, 09/07/2012 A Zimbabwean asylum seeker, Hukwa was found dead in the river Thames. He had been awaiting the processing of his asylum claim and was said to have been continuously worried that he was failing to provide for his family in Zimbabwe.132 • Prince Kwabena Ofosu (31), 30/10/2012 A Ghanaian migrant, Ofosu was found dead in his cell in Harmondsworth IRC, near London. Ghanaian detainees released a statement alleging Ofosu had been injured whilst being forcibly restrained, and that he had been left naked in a cell without heating. Detainees also pointed to poor conditions and inadequate health care. A post-mortem was said to have found no evidence of violence.133 • Khalid Shahzad (52), 30/03/2013 A Pakistani migrant, Shahzad died on a train to Manchester shortly after being released from Colnbrook IRC following three months detention there. He was judged unfit to be detained due to poor health, including heart disease, thrombosis and diabetes, after he collapsed, but was left to get home alone when he was released the following day. Fellow detainees described constant breathing difficulties throughout his detention, and his family stated that a stent had been fitted to help his heart and that he had had several hospital stays, the latest four days before his death.134 • Yousef Shokri-Gharab (34), 20/06/2013 An Iranian asylum seeker, Shokri-Gharab committed suicide in a car park and was pronounced dead at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. He had sought asylum in Britain in January 2013, but had had his claim rejected by the Home Office, and was awaiting a tribunal appeal. Shokri-Gharab suffered from a serious mental illness, had expressed suicidal intentions and had a history of self-harming (including overdoses of medication, banging his head against a wall, and cutting himself). He was given unescorted leave from Windsor House, where he was staying because of his history of drug addiction, and was found dead of an overdose of heroin a few days later.135 • Tahir Mehmood (43), 26/07/2013 A Pakistani migrant, Mehmood was found dead in Pennine House, a short-term holding facility near Manchester airport, five days after being detained at the centre for overstaying his visa. Relatives said he was looking forward to returning to his family in Pakistan, but fellow inmates reportedly said he did not want to go back and had complained of maltreatment at the hands of staff. He was found collapsed at the centre. A post-mortem found he died of ischaemic heart disease.136 • Mohamoud Ali (36), 01/02/2014 An undocumented Somali migrant, Ali was found dead in his cell in the G4S-run HMP Parc prison in Bridgend. The wrong family was notified of his death, and his own family only heard about his death much later. No information as to the cause of death has been made available.137 • Leonovid Isufaj (27), 27/02/2014 An Albanian migrant, Isufaj committed suicide off the coast of Harwich during his deportation to the Netherlands. Two Albanian men, Isufaj and another, allegedly jumped from a Stena Britannica ferry during IRR | European Research Progamme Briefing No. 10 26

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