A man has died in detention at an immigration removal centre. The 26-year-old died at Brook House, near Gatwick, security company Serco has confirmed. A Brook House spokesman said: “We can confirm the death of a 26-year-old man at Brook House yesterday.
” The death comes almost a year after a 37-year-old Albanian man died after attempting suicide in November 2023 while he was being detained at Brook House. The Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group, a charity which supports detainees at Brook House, said: “On the death of a man in detention yesterday we send heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and everyone who knew and loved him. “Brook House is prison architecture and no-one should take their last breath there.
We mourn that a young man died before he could be free.” Steve Valdez-Symonds, Amnesty International UK’s refugee and migrant rights director, said: “We despair at reports that yet another person has died in the Brook House detention centre. Our hearts go out to his family, friends and the fellow detainees affected by this tragedy too.
“Brook House has gained notoriety for violence, racism and abuse. What part this may have had in this man’s death we do not yet know, but these degradations derive from a wider failure to make a system respect human dignity and rights. READ MORE: Detainees mistreated in ‘prison-like’ conditions, Brook House Inquiry finds “Tragic incidents such as this emphasise why the government must bring humanity to the immig.