Balogun,21-year-old Nigerian hangs self in UK over fear of deportation

 The 21 year old Nigerian, Riliwanu Balogun, who was found hanged at Glen Parva Young Offender’s Institute in Leicester in 2011, a day after his 21st birthday, has been revealed to have died as a result of fear of deportation. An inquest into the death of the young Nigerian revealed that Balogun who moved to the UK when he was seven years of age, had told a senior prison staff that he had nothing to live for.

Paul Mayfield, the senior prison officer said during the jury inquest hearing that “He (Balogun) told me he had nothing to live for. He said ‘I’ll be deported back to Nigeria. I’ve got no-one back there. I’ll be living in the slums.”

According to BBC report, “the jury inquest, which finished Thursday, January 24, 2013, heard Balogun moved to the UK when he was seven-years-old and spent much of his childhood in institutions. He was transferred to Glen Parva, which holds men aged 18 to 21, in April 2011 to await deportation. The morning he was found hanged on 8 May 2011 he was assessed by staff after cutting himself. He was taken to Leicester Royal Infirmary after staff tried to revive him but died a week later. The hearing also heard he had a string of previous convictions and that at the end of April he struggled to speak to a nurse because he was sobbing so hard”