The names of some of the asylum seekers who died in 2023 and 2024 while in Home Office accommodation have been reported including Leonard Farruku who died on the Bibby Stockholm barge in December 2023 in a suspected suicide, Claudia Kambanza from Namibia who died in Hull in January 2024 after a stabbing, and Amir Safi, a young Afghan asylum seeker who said he was 16 but who was classified as an adult by the Home Office, died after a road traffic collision on the M1 in April 2023.
Record number of asylum seekers died in 2024 while in care of Home Office Data obtained by the Guardian shows 51 people died in Home Office provided accommodation in 2024.
A record number of asylum seekers died last year while in the care of the Home Office, according to data obtained by the Guardian, and officials admit they do not know when some of them died.
Maddie Harris, of Humans for Rights Network, which supports young asylum seekers, said: “The Home Office must urgently clarify precisely how many people have died whilst in the asylum system and under its care.
The Home Office did not comment on whether there had been a delay in the bodies of this group being discovered while they were in the care of the Home Office, although sources did not dispute that the Iranian man’s body was not discovered for a month.
