The Guardian - 12.07.2019

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Shackles and belts used

on hundreds of deportees

Diane Taylor

Hundreds of people deported from

the UK were restrained by a variety

of methods including shackles, the

Guardian has learned.

Restraints were used 447 times from

April 2018 and March 2019. Inform-

ation on the use of rigid-bar handcuff s,

leg restraints and waist-restraint belts

was provided to the Guardian after a

freedom of information request.

Home Offi ce policy states that there

is a presumption against the use of

restraint but in 335 cases more than

one form of restraint was used at the

same time. In 102 cases three diff erent

pieces of restraint were used. Home

Office sub contractors who escort

deportees are trained to use restraints.

MPs and human rights campaign-

ers condemned the evidence of

widespread use of restraint during

deportations. Labour’s David Lammy

said the new data was chilling and

revealed an abuse of power.

A report by the Inspectorate of

Prisons published on Friday raised

Police fi red teargas at demonstrators as mass

democracy protests entered their 10th week.

The foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, had earlier

called for ‘meaningful political dialogue’. Page 4

concerns about the use of restraints

on a charter flight to Nigeria and

Ghana earlier this year. It said: “Waist-

restraint belts were still b eing used on

cooperative detainees for extremely

long periods without them being given

a chance to demonstrate compliance.

It is unacceptable that this problem

continues to occur despite promises

of remedial action.”

A previous report last year con-

demned the excessive use of restraint

on another charter fl ight, whe n 22 of

23 passengers were held in waist-

restraint belts even though most had

no history of disruption and were

deemed low risk.

Deportees on the charter fl ight to

Jamaica in February this year, one of

the Home Offi ce’s most recent charter

fl ights, told the Guardian that every-

one had been restrained for at least

part of the journey. A Home Offi ce

spokesman declined to comment on

the arrangements for that fl ight.

Much of the restraint used during

deportations takes place on Home

Offi ce-commissioned charter fl ights..

Lovelyn Edobor , a dis-

abled Nigerian victim of

Inquiries

begin into

Epstein’s

jail death

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Tom McCarthy

Authorities in three separate jurisdic-

tions have opened investigations into

the apparent suicide of Jeff rey Epstein

in a New York prison cell, amid a report

that jail staff failed to follow protocols

on checking on the disgraced fi nancier.

Epstein, 66, was accused of sex-

traffi cking crimes dating from the early

2000s involving dozens of women

and girls as young as 14. His body was

found by staff at the Metropolitan

Correctional Center in Manhattan at

6 .30am on Saturday , the facility said.

The Federal Bureau of Investiga-

tions, the inspector general’s offi ce of

the US justice department and the New

York City medical examiner’s offi ce

have all opened investigations into

why Epstein, who had been placed on

suicide watch for a week last month,

had reportedly not remained under

special monitoring.

On the night before Epstein was

found dead, a pair of guards at the

prison failed to follow procedures that

would have required a visual check on

him every 30 minutes, an unnamed

law enforcement official told the

New York Times. The jail

was understaff ed, a union

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