Evening Standard newspaper reports: A man in his 80s who died in handcuffs at Britain’s biggest detention centre was travelling via London on a quest to track down his long-lost daughter, it emerged today.
Alois Dvorzac, 84, had left his home in Canada on a last journey to say goodbye to the daughter he had left in Slovenia decades before.
But the mission ended in tragedy when Mr Dvorzac was refused entry to the UK at Gatwick and taken to Harmondsworth immigration removal centre near Heathrow to be deported.
He was declared unfit for detention or deportation a week later after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s but was held for a further two weeks before being transferred to hospital where he died in February last year, having been shackled for five hours,
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