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Asylum rejection led to suicide
23/12/2006
A CORONER has ruled the imminent deportation of a failed asylum seeker found hanged was a 'prime factor' in his death.
The body of Janvier Makiadi, of Holland Street, was discovered hanging from a River Spodden footbridge, near Blair Street, in September.
Born in the Congo, the father-of-three had been turned down for asylum by the Home Office three months before his death.
An inquest heard how Mr Makiadi, one of five brothers and two sisters, had made an application for asylum in January, but was refused in March.
His appeal was also refused and all appeal routes were officially exhausted in June.
Mr Makiadi, who also used the name Paul Kiese, last reported to the immigration service on 13 June and was liable to be detained and deported.
Gaston Ndakunono, Mr Makiadi's brother living in Spain, last saw his brother over a year ago, but knew he had moved to Germany, where he had a partner and two children, as well as a third child with another partner.
He had heard Mr Makiadi moved to the UK but had no other details.
Clay Luamba, Mr Makiadi's friend, said they had met in Blackburn in February before moving to Rochdale in April.
Mr Luamba said Mr Makiadi, who he saw regularly, had been upset and demoralised when his application for asylum was turned down.
He said he sometimes talked a lot but other times not at all, but felt he could not go back to the Congo.
A post mortem examination found Mr Makiadi had no ligature marks or external injuries but had a fractured larynx.
The cause of death was asphyxia as a result of hanging.
Coroner Simon Nelson said: "It would be inapropriate for me to go into the rationale behind the refusal by authorities of asylum, but the fact of that refusal and that he was liable to be detained and removed from the UK clearly would have operated on his own mind. I'm sure that was a factor in him formulating the decision to take his own life."
Mr Nelson ruled Mr Makiadi had taken his own life.
l View our readers' online comments on this tragedy in our news archive for September at www.rochdaleobserver.co.uk
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