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Border guards 'beat and tied up' disabled asylum-seeker
A disabled asylum-seeker told the Star yesterday that he was beaten by staff tasked to deliver him to Heathrow airport
A disabled asylum-seeker told the Star yesterday that he was beaten by staff tasked to deliver him to Heathrow airport for deportation.
Alain Kouayep Tchatchue was delivered to Heathrow early on Saturday from nearby Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre.
Visually impaired Mr Tchatchue claimed that when he refused to board a flight to Cameroon, from which he fled because he is bisexual, he was attacked.
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