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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Diane Taylor

Bibby Stockholm asylum seeker who died in suspected suicide is named

Leonard Farruku, the Albanian asylum seeker who was found dead on the Bibby Stockholm
Leonard Farruku, an Albanian asylum seeker, was found dead on the Bibby Stockholm last week. Photograph: instagram

The asylum seeker who died in a suspected suicide on the Bibby Stockholm barge last week has been named as Leonard Farruku.

Farruku, 27, an Albanian national, was first named in reports in the Telegraph. Several asylum seekers onboard the barge, which is moored in Portland, Dorset, told the Guardian the man had appeared to be in a state of distress shortly before he died, shouting and banging on the wall of his cabin.

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