UK: Suicide doubt over burnt refugee

from BBC News:

An open verdict has been recorded on a 29-year-old Iranian asylum seeker who died after setting himself on fire at a refugee support centre in Manchester.

Esrafeel Tajarogee suffered 80% burns after dousing himself with petrol at the Refugee Action Centre in Dale Street on 28 August 2003.
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... Esrafeel Tajarogee, who arrived in the UK in 2010 and was refused asylum in December 2002, had been attending a meeting about trying to appeal against the decision [to refuse him asylum] on medical grounds.

After the meeting he went into the toilets and changed into some clothes soaked in petrol before setting himself alight in the centre's reception area.

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