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Another gagging?

01 July 1994

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On 24 May, Nigerian asylum-seeker Elizabeth Blanchard was allegedly gagged and handcuffed at Campsfield as she was being taken away for deportation. Despite her psychiatrically disturbed state, in which the only safe place for her was a hospital, she was detained in Banbury police station for 16 hours, and spent the time banging her head against the wall of a cell. A private security firm, Loss Prevention International, then removed her to Holloway, where she was certified unfit to be detained and taken to the nearby Whittington hospital. She spent the next 24 hours unconscious. She was discharged from hospital in early July and released pending an inquiry by the Home Office into her treatment.

CARF no 21 July/August 1994; Migrant Media 2.6.94.

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