Day of action for Jimmy Mubenga
provided by: On 12 October 2012, campaigners will mark the two-year anniversary of the death of Jimmy Mubenga,
the 46-year-old Angolan migrant who died in 2010 at the hands of G4S
security guards ‘restraining’ him on board a British Airways flight
during his forcible deportation to Angola.
With various protests and actions, campaigners will be demanding that G4S and the three guards (who were re-employed by Reliance, which took over the detainee escorts contract from G4S later that year) are held responsible for this crime; they will be demanding justice for Mubenga and his family, and that no one should face such a fate in the future.
Despite
several eye witnesses confirming that excessive force was used by the
three G4S guards, leading to Mubenga’s suffocation and subsequent death,
and that the Home Office and G4S’ initial accounts of what happened on
board the flight were false, the Crown Prosecution Service decided in
July this year, 18 months later, that neither G4S nor the guards
concerned will face manslaughter charges due to “conflicting witness
accounts”.
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