Suicides of asylum seekers in Home Office accommodation double in last four years

Flowers are laid as a vigil is held for Leonard Farruku, an asylum seeker who died on the Bibby Stockholm barge moored in Portland, Dorset. Photograph: Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images

A total of 23 asylum seekers are thought to have killed themselves in Home Office accommodation in the last four years, more than double the total in the previous four years, the Guardian has learned.

According to research shared with the Guardian, 23 people are confirmed or suspected to have died by suicide between 2020 and so far in 2023.