Angolan Deportee Jimmy Mubenga Shouted 'You're Killing Me' But Was Ignored By G4S Security Guards

An Angolan deportee was heard by air
passengers to cry out "you're killing me" as he
was pinned down in his seat by G4S security
guards, a jury heard.
Three G4S guards killed Jimmy Mubenga, 46,
as they restrained him on a flight from the UK,
the Old Bailey was told.
Colin Kaler, 51, from Bedfordshire, Terrence
Hughes, 53, from Hampshire, and Stuart
Tribelnig, 38, from Surrey, deny the
manslaughter of Mr Mubenga.

Angolan national Jimmy Mubenga had been
living in the UK for a
number of years with his wife and children, the
youngest of which was a few months old.
He died as a flight prepared to leave Heathrow
for Angola in October 2010.
In an unprecedented move, a section of the
Boeing 777 with three rows of three seats has
been specially constructed inside Court 16 of
the Old Bailey to demonstrate to the jury how
Mr Mubenga died.
The security guards ignored his desperate
pleas and "disregarded their duty of care" by
assuming that the married father was
"feigning" illness as the British Airways flight
prepared to take off, jurors were told.
Prosecutor Mark Dennis QC told the court: "As
the man boarded the plane, accompanied by
the three Group 4 Securicor (G4S) guards, Mr
Mubenga, who left his family and children in
the UK, had been "fit and healthy" and
"thoroughly co-operative", Mr Dennis told the
court.
He said that a few minutes after boarding, Mr
Mubenga was returning from the lavatory,still
accompanied by the three officers, when all
four became "embroiled in a commotion which
quickly escalated into a physical struggle" as
the officers tried to force him to sit down.

"He was then further restrained by the
application of rigid handcuffs with his arms,
hands bound in that way behind his back and
his seat belt being applied around his waist
thereby holding him into the seat," he said.
He said such physical restraint should have
been enough to hold Mr Mubenga in his seat
and make him realise there was no point in
struggling further.

One officer sat either side of Mr Mubenga, with
the other leaning over from the seat ahead,
and between them pinned him into his seat,
Mr Dennis said.
"In doing so, they held Mubenga in such a
position bent forward that his ability to breathe
properly was inevitable impaired," he said.
"Each officer would have known from their
training and from common sense that keeping
someone in such a position was likely to
cause a person harm yet they did so over a
prolonged period and did so ignoring shouts
from Mubenga that he was in trouble - 'I can't
breathe' shouts that were heard by many a
passenger seated further away.
"His shouts that he was unable to breathe
were disregarded."
Mr Mubenga shouted out: "Please let me go, I
want to see my family... you're killing me.
Please help," the court heard.
Mr Dennis said while Mr Mubenga was seated
motionless and "simply staring open-eyed
ahead of him", the officers appeared to have
"disregarded their duty of care" and assumed
he was feigning his condition.
He said it was only when one officer realised
Mr Mubenga was in a critical state that the
"medical emergency" was reported to the
control tower.
"By then, however, Mubenga had almost
certainly already suffered a cardiac arrest and
was, in all likelihood, beyond recovery as sadly
proved to be the case."
The whole incident lasted 35 minutes, the
court heard.
Mr Mubenga was an Angolan national who
had been living in the UK for a number of years
with his wife and children, the youngest of
which was a few months old, the court heard. May his soul rest in PEACE.

Culled from BBC