Three G4S detainee custody officers are to be charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of Jimmy Mubenga, the Crown Prosecution Service said today.
Mubenga, 46, was on a British Airways flight bound for his native Angola when security guards noticed he was not breathing. The father-of-five later died in hospital.
Officers Colin Kaler, Terrence Hughes and Stuart Tribelnig will now be charged with manslaughter after earlier inquest found that Mr Mubenga had been 'unlawfully killed' during his deportation.
The G4S guards had been tasked with removing Mr Mubenga on a British Airways flight to his native Angola in October 2010.
The inquest found Mr Mubenga died of cardio-respiratory collapse, where the heart stops beating and a person stops breathing.
Prosecutors decided in July 2012 that no charges should be brought in relation to Mr Mubenga’s death.
The case was reconsidered by the CPS after the inquest last year recorded a verdict of unlawful killing.
Kaler, 51, from Bedfordshire, Hughes, 53, from Hampshire, and Tribelnig, 38, from Surrey, have been charged with unlawful act manslaughter and gross negligence manslaughter as alternatives, the CPS said.
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