Albanian man taken from UK psychiatric ward to deportation flight – report

There are almost weekly deportation charter flights from the UK to Albania. Photograph: Roger Bamber/Alamy

An Albanian man who was being held in a secure psychiatric unit was taken directly from his hospital bed to a Home Office deportation flight, a report has revealed.

The Independent Monitoring Boards (IMB), a watchdog for prisons and immigration removal centres, has raised concerns about the incident last summer in its annual report published on Thursday.