Jimmy Mubenga was “unlawfully killed”

Submitted by Matthew on 16 July, 2013 - 9:07

The inquest into the death of Angolan deportee Jimmy Mubenga returned a verdict of “unlawful killing” on Tuesday 9 July.

Mubenga was killed in October 2010 when he was handcuffed, belted, and restrained in an unsafe position aboard a British Airways flight by G4S guards. Following his death, the guards colluded with G4S senior management to write up and collate their accounts of the event, in which they claimed Mubenga forced himself into the unsafe position, thus causing his own death.

Evidence from passengers, however, attested that Mubenga had been forced, face-first, into the doubled-up position by the G4S guards, who the inquest also exposed had shared racist texts.

The verdict cannot bring relief or justice for the family Jimmy leaves behind, but it can help us expose the brutality at the heart of Britain’s immigration system and immigration controls themselves.

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