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Marcin Gwozdzinski
SECURITY privateer Mitie’s management will come under scrutiny after a Polish man was able to take his own life at the firm’s largest immigration detention centre near Heathrow.
A two-week inquest opens tomorrow at West London coroner’s court to probe the role of Mitie, the Home Office and the NHS in the death of 28-year-old Marcin Gwozdzinski.
Mr Gwozdzinski died in hospital on September 7 2017 after he collapsed at the Harmondsworth removal centre, where he had spent nine months awaiting deportation.
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Despite Labour’s promises to bring things ‘in-house,’ the Justice Secretary has awarded notorious outsourcing outfit Mitie a £329 million contract to run a new prison — despite its track record of abuse and neglect in its migrant facilities, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
