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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Diane Taylor

Family of man who died on Bibby Stockholm question mental health care

Family photo of Leonard Farruku smiling, he is wearing a black zip up jacket
Leonard Farruku’s body was found in a shower room on the barge in December 2023. Photograph: Family handout/PA

The family of an asylum seeker who died on the Bibby Stockholm barge say they do not understand why a man “whose mental state was clearly not right” was moved there.

An inquest into the death of Leonard Farruku, an Albanian asylum seeker whose body was found in a shower room on the barge in Portland Port on 12 December 2023, opened in Bournemouth on Monday.

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