Firms to be charged over Heathrow detention centre death

The Crown Prosecution Service says it will file criminal charges against two for-profit companies that run an immigration detention center. “Prince Fosu , a Ghanaian national, died suddenly at Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre in west London on the morning of October 30 2012. The 31-year-old was discovered lying on the concrete floor of his cell at the facility by staff. The Crown Prosecution Service said on Tuesday that it has decided that the GEO Group UK Ltd., which ran Harmondsworth at the time, and Nestor Primecare Services Ltd., which ran health services at the centre under contract to GEO, should face charges of breaching Section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. An offence is committed under this section when an employer ‘fails to take reasonable care of the health and safety of someone affected by their undertaking,’ the CPS said.”

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Apr 3, 2017




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