Cleverly promises investigation after asylum seeker dies on Bibby Stockholm
The death of an asylum seeker on board the Bibby Stockholm barge will be investigated “fully”, Home Secretary James Cleverly has said.
Police were called to reports of the “sudden death” of a man living on the giant vessel, which houses migrants in Portland, Dorset, early on Tuesday morning.
South Dorset MP Richard Drax described the news as a “tragedy born of an impossible situation” and said he had been told by the Home Office the man is thought to have taken his own life.
Several other sources told the PA news agency the death is believed to be a
