The Home Office does not publish data on the deaths of asylum seekers in its housing...
... despite calls from experts and campaigners to do so. We set out to gather as much information as possible about each of them. Here, we tell their stories.
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Name unknown
Female
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67
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Nigerian
died on or around:
20/6/2021
6/20/2021
Cause of death:
Cancer-related
housing provider:
Mears
Location:
North East, Yorkshire and the Humber
,
2021/06
20210620
This 67-year-old Nigerian died at a palliative care home on 20 June 2021. Two months earlier, she had been discharged from hospital into a hotel where she is said in Home Office notes to have struggled.
She was urgently relocated to self-contained accommodation where an emergency care plan and medical equipment were put in place, but in May she was admitted to hospital suffering chest pains and shortness of breath. Her son told Mears she'd been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and she was discharged to the hospice.
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Name unknown
Male
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43
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Indian
died on or around:
21/6/2021
6/21/2021
Cause of death:
Suspected alcohol-related causes
housing provider:
Serco
Location:
Midlands and East of England
,
2021/06
20210621
This 43-year-old Indian man died in hospital due to "alcohol-related issues" including suspected liver failure, according to an email sent by housing provider Serco to the Home Office. The email added he was "very lonely, however due to Covid a lot has been out of our hands".
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Name unknown
Male
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40
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Ghanaian
died on or around:
28/9/2016
9/28/2016
Cause of death:
End-stage kidney failure
housing provider:
Serco
Location:
Scotland
,
Glasgow
2016/09
20160928
This 40-year-old Ghanaian was being visited daily by healthcare professionals because he was suffering kidney failure, according to the Home Office's Incident Database. The healthcare workers discovered his body.
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Name unknown
Male
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27
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Ethiopian
died on or around:
28/12/2016
12/28/2016
Cause of death:
Not known
housing provider:
Clearsprings Ready Homes
Location:
Wales
,
Swansea
2016/12
20161228
Substance abuse was suspected in the death of this Ethiopian 27-year-old, according to the Home Office Incident Database, but this was not confirmed.
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Name unknown
Male
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29
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Afghan
died on or around:
29/4/2016
4/29/2016
Cause of death:
Suicide
housing provider:
G4S
Location:
Midlands and East of England
,
Birmingham
2016/04
20160429
This 29-year-old Afghan man died by suicide, Home Office files show. His body was released to a friend following an inquest in June 2016.
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Name unknown
Female
/
67
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Iranian
died on or around:
29/6/2021
6/29/2021
Cause of death:
Not known
housing provider:
Clearsprings Ready Homes
Location:
South
,
2021/06
20210629
This 67-year-old Iranian woman died on 29 June 2021, two days after she was admitted to hospital. The record adds that "no formal cause of death has been disclosed but [redacted] has known health conditions".
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Name unknown
Male
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88
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Afghan
died on or around:
14/6/2021
6/14/2021
Cause of death:
Not known
housing provider:
Serco
Location:
North West
,
2021/06
20210614
The death of this Afghan man, aged 88, was logged in the Home Office's Incident Database on 14 June 2021. The exact date of death is not known, but he is said to have been unwell for the previous three months following surgery for a hip fracture and kidney problems.
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Name unknown
Female
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35
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Nigerian
died on or around:
24/4/2017
4/24/2017
Cause of death:
Not known
housing provider:
Serco
Location:
North West
,
Rochdale
2017/04
20170424
This 35-year-old Nigerian woman died in April 2017, but the Home Office's Incident Database does not state how, and the case was marked "closed" soon afterwards.
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Name unknown
Male
/
71
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Nepalese
died on or around:
28/11/2017
11/28/2017
Cause of death:
Not known
housing provider:
G4S
Location:
North East, Yorkshire and the Humber
,
Rotherham
2017/11
20171128
Notes in the Home Office's Incident Database about this Nepalese man's death appear to refer to two individuals - one with housing needs and another, a woman, who died. Both entries appear to have been made in December 2017. It is therefore difficult to establish the circumstances.
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Name unknown
Female
/
82
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Congolese (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
died on or around:
26/10/2017
10/26/2017
Cause of death:
Not known
housing provider:
Serco
Location:
North West
,
Salford
2017/10
20171026
This 82-year-old woman from Democratic Republic of Congo died in October 2017, Home Office files show. It is not clear how.
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Name unknown
Male
/
38
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Zimbabwean
died on or around:
8/11/2017
11/8/2017
Cause of death:
Accident at work
housing provider:
G4S
Location:
Midlands and East of England
,
Birmingham
2017/11
20171108
This 38-year-old Zimbabwean man appears to have died as the result of an accident at work. He may have been working illegally at the time; notes on the Home Office's Incident Database mention the need for a "possible referral to Enforcement Intel".
Asylum seekers are normally unable to work while their claims are being considered and the notes go on to say that the man's employer could not be identified due to sub-contracting. The man's mother agreed to collect his belongings from G4S.
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Name unknown
Male
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68
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Afghan
died on or around:
22/2/2018
2/22/2018
Cause of death:
Not known
housing provider:
Clearsprings Ready Homes
Location:
South
,
London
2018/02
20180222
This Afghan man arrived in the UK by lorry with his family and died in accommodation provided by the Home Office the next day. His family claimed he had medical issues but notes from Barry House, where he stayed, state staff weren't "specifically aware" of concerns.
Despite this an inspector at Lunar House, the Home Office's London-based visas and immigration hub, said that on arrival and prior to going to his accommodation, he vomited. Notes in a High Profile Notification form state "he was Diabetic, had a Kidney operation to remove stones and a chest infection".
The man had no medication with him. After he vomited, the High Profile Notification form notes that no paramedics were called to assist him.
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