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Monday 18 October 2010

Despite the pain, Jimmy Mubenga didn`t died from natural cause...

Since the declaration by an unnamed Home Office spokesman on the 12th October that  < "We can confirm that a detainee was taken ill on a flight preparing to depart from the UK. Paramedics were called and he was taken to hospital where he died."The matter is being investigated by the police and the prisons and probation ombudsman."..> nothing has been said regarding the police investigation procedure.

6 days after the sudden and violent death of Jimmy on board the BA 77 flight , family and friends are still anxious  to learn the news from the Police investigation and the Home Office statement. The anger is growing inside late asylum seeker family here and back home in Angola.

Jimmy widow and children are still waiting anxiously for the conclusion of the police investigation and a medical report from the public official responsible for the investigation of a sudden or suspicious death. From many calls and conversations added on the phone by late jimmy friends who are still detainees in Colnbrook Immigration removal centre, Dover Immigration removal centre and Brook house, there is a collective reply.


46 year-old Jimmy was a strong and healthy man and has never had any problem that needed a nurse of a doctor intervention and also had no sign of self-harm, according to his cellmate from Colnbrook immigration removal centre, Sylvester Davies.

 He has spent lot of his time going to the gym and playing football with other detainees in the immigration reception or removal centre. He also spoke everyday on the phone to his wife and children and many of the detainees know his wife name and children manes as well.

In his cell he has lot of  pictures of his family here in the UK. Nearly a week now the police investigation still ongoing and there is no perspective of having the news later this week as the country is on the edge of national strike when the Chancellor George Osborne will deliver a spending review that will define the political and fiscal landscape for many years to come.

Around the immigration removal and reception centres where Jimmy was held in the last months, detainees are now organising themselves to hold vigils and strikes in order to raise awareness about the treatment that some detainees received by the security company guards when they are under escort for deportation.

Many detainees at Colnbrook immigration removal centre said that, they will not be surprised in case the police investigation and the coroner one come to conclusion that Jimmy Mubenga death was from a natural cause due to an irregular heartbeat.

The death of Jimmy will spark protests and possible riots around UK immigration removal centres this time again. Jimmy`s wife is worried about the cover up by the Home Office not to reveal the truth about the death of her husband in that BA 77 flight. She said that what happened to his husband in that flight BA 77  is horrific and inhumane

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