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Suicidal man’s 999 call from detention centre was cancelled after staff said it was a hoax
A cell in Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre

A SUICIDAL detainee’s ambulance was cancelled after detention centre staff claimed his desperate 999 call was a “hoax.”

The detainee took his own life the next day.

Marcin Gwozdzinski
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