Man dies at Brook House migrant removal centre

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Man ***** at Brook House migrant removal centre

A man has ***** while in detention at the Brook House migrant removal centre in West Sussex, the company that runs the centre has confirmed.

Security firm Serco said a 26-year-old man ***** at the facility, which is located next to Gatwick Airport, on Sunday.

The Home Office said its condolences were with the man’s family and friends.

Migrant removal centres house a range of detainees, including asylum seekers, people who have been refused the right to remain in the ***, or people awaiting deportation after completing a ********* sentence.

There is currently no maximum ******* for which detainees can be held.

A public inquiry into the centre last year

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in which migrants were subjected to degrading treatment and the inappropriate use of force.

The public inquiry was launched following an investigation by BBC Panorama in 2017 prompted by a whistleblower who worked as a custody officer at the centre.

The final report identified 19 incidents of mistreatment against detainees over a five-month ******* in 2017.

They included unnecessary pain inflicted on four detainees, dangerous restraint techniques, and the forcible moving of detainees while they were ****** or near ******.

The report also said detainees had been the targets of *******, homophobic, and humiliating language.

The centre itself was found to be overcrowded, ******, and noise from aircraft at Gatwick, while there was also widespread use of the so-called zombie ***** Spice.

In August, a further report by the Gatwick Independent Monitoring Board, which monitors the centre, found

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, and last month Kate Eves, who chaired the public inquiry,

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to implement only one of her 33 recommendations.

The Home Office has previously said it is “committed” to improving immigration detention facilities.

In a statement, charity Gatwick Detainees ******** Group compared Brook House to a prison and said “no-one should take their last breath there”.

“We mourn that a young man ***** before he could be free,” it said.

Amnesty International ***’s ******** and migrant rights director, Steve Valdez-Symonds, called the ****** a “tragedy”.

“Brook House has gained notoriety for *********, racism and ******,” he said.

“What part this may have in this man’s ****** we do not yet know, but these degradations derive from a wider ******** to make a system respect human dignity and rights.

“Tragic incidents such as this emphasise why the government must bring humanity to the immigration system as much as any other policy area – people’s lives depend on it.”

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