Fatal fall during search (1)
01 January 1991
Fatal fall during search
artdoc July=1994
The Police Complaints Authority is investigating the death of a
Nigerian woman who died trying to escape from a north London flat
where police and a bailiff went to serve a summons. The woman
tried to climb from the balcony of the twelfth floor flat to the
flat below, using a washing line, which snapped. Friends said she
mistook the police for immigration officers. Speculative and
unlawful immigration checks are commonplace in some areas on the
part of police investigating other matters and have been the
subject of complaint for decades. It is not known whether the
police attempted to carry out immigration status checks in this
case. Independent 28.4.94
Statewatch, vol 4 no 3, May-June 1994