Three G4S escort guard arrested over Mubenga death and released on police bail

According to Associated Press, Three civilian security guards, those who were supposed to supervise the deportation of a failed asylum seeker from the UK back to Luanda in Angola, were arrested yesterday over the death of Jimmy Mubenga  while they were deporting him from the UK. 

 

The coroner medical report will tell exactly what happened
The three, aged 35, 48 and 49, were arrested at a West London police station yesterday and have been released on police bail until December pending further inquiries. 

 

A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "The deceased was being deported from the UK under escort by civilian security guards. These three men worked for Group4 securicor, a private contractor company with the Home Office to hold in a secured immigration detention centre all asylum seekers and failed asylum seekers awaiting deportation order from the Cour or from an immigration officer or judge and also to manage their forcibly  removal from the UK. 

 

The G4S is a multi-millions pounds contract company with the Home Office and often employed most black and minorities ethnics staff rather than Born British personnel.

 

Inquiries continue to establish the full circumstances of the incident. The death is being treated as unexplained at this stage."

Scotland Yard confirmed that their homicide unit had taken command of the investigation after it was initially dealt with by officers from Heathrow CID.

Jimmy Mubenga, 46, collapsed on a airplane at Heathrow Airport while he was being escorted by the three men as he waited to be flown back to his homeland last week.

The Home Office said that it could not comment on claims that Mr Mubenga had been restrained before his death.