source: IB Times
published: November 14, 2014
A teenager has told the Old Bailey how Angolan man Jimmy Mubenga pleaded for his life while he was “viciously” manhandled on a deportation flight out of Heathrow.
Mubenga, 46, was being deported to Africa after serving a two-year prison sentence for assault occasioning actual bodily harm. He was travelling on a Boeing 777 when he became agitated and had to be restrained by guards and handcuffed with his seat belt on.
source: UK Human Rights Blog
published: 7 November 2014
The Court of Appeal has held that the physical restraint of persons being removed from the UK by aircraft is subject to a sufficient framework of safeguards to fulfil the state’s obligations under Articles 2 and 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Further, the decision of the Home Secretary not to publish aspects of the applicable policy on the use of such control and restraint is lawful.
source: The Guardian
published: 4 November 2014
Three G4S guards who forcibly restrained an Angolan man during his deportation ignored his repeated cries for help as they held him at the back of an aircraft before he died, a court heard on Tuesday.
Passengers on the plane on the runway at Heathrow airport heard Jimmy Mubenga, 46, shout “I can’t breathe” as the guards pinned him in his seat for more than 15 minutes, the jury was told at the beginning of the guards’ trial for manslaughter.
More than half an hour after the struggle began, Mubenga became “motionless and starry eyed”, the Old Bailey heard. He was taken off the aircraft and pronounced dead at hospital a short time later.
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