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Private company under fire over man’s death in immigration detention
Amir Siman-Tov from Morocco died while on suicide watch at Colnbrook in 2016
A Detention Custody Officer looks through a cell door observation hole at the then newly opened Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre in west London in 2004

PRIVATE security company Mitie is under fire about how a Moroccan man was able to take his own life while on suicide watch at the firm’s immigration detention centre near Heathrow.

An inquest opens on Monday at West London coroner’s court to probe the role of Mitie, the Home Office and the NHS in the death of 41-year-old Amir Siman-Tov.

Mr Siman-Tov, a convert to Judaism, died at Colnbrook immigration removal centre on February 17 2016. His wife was pregnant at the time of his death.

 
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