Last month, an inquest jury of seven men and three women returned a majority verdict that Jimmy Mubenga was unlawfully killed during a deportation. Yesterday the coroner published a report into the ease with which Mubenga’s life was taken by the state and its contractors.
What kind of society can treat the death of an immigrant so casually? The same one that produced the van driven through London’s black and minority ethnic communities last week, inscribed with the slogan “go home”.
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