AAP General News (Australia)
12-08-2010
NSW:British national dies in detention
A British man being held in Sydney's Villawood detention centre for breaching his visa
conditions has died.
It's understood the 29-year-old was wanted in the UK on serious criminal charges ..
although the Department of Immigration has not confirmed this.
Police and paramedics were called to assist the detainee .. who was not breathing when
staff found him in his accommodation quarters in the early hours of this morning.
Authorities say he could not be revived and was pronounced dead.
The Refugee Action Coalition's IAN RINTOUL says it's suspected the man took his own life.
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KEYWORD: VILLAWOOD (SYDNEY)
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