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Private security company stopped suicide watch after 3 minute review, inquest told
General view of Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre

PRIVATE security guards spent just three minutes and six seconds reviewing a detainee’s mental health before taking him off suicide watch.

The man went on to hang himself two days later, an inquest jury has heard.

Marcin Gwozdzinski, from Poland, was detained at Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre near Heathrow.

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