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23 August 2018

Jimmy Mubenga: coroner finds “pervasive racism“ among G4S guards

It's vital to draw the link between tragedies like the death of Mubenga and the way immigrants are discussed in the media and politics. Language helps create the climate in which abuses go unpunished.

By Daniel Trilling

Last month, an inquest jury decided that the Angolan deportee Jimmy Mubenga was unlawfully killed after being restrained by three G4S security guards on a plane at Heathrow airport. Today, the coroner who led the inquest has published a damning report with wider implications about the way people are deported from the UK.

The Guardian has neatly summarised the concerns raised by the coroner, Karon Monaghan, in her 30-page “rule 43 report”:

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