The Albanian asylum seeker suspected of taking his own life on the Bibby Stockholm died without knowing that days earlier he had been granted the right to do paid work by the Home Office, the Telegraph can reveal.
Leonard Farruku, an Albanian migrant who died last month on a barge housing migrants in the United Kingdom, was buried close to the Albanian capital Tirana on Wednesday in a funeral attended by his relatives. The death of Farruku, 27, reignited controversy surrounding the Bibby Stockholm, a barge for asylum seekers moored in southern England that rights groups have compared to a prison ship but which authorities say is necessary to cut the costs of accommodating migrants. "He said he was treated very badly there . like an animal," Farruku's aunt Drita Kapllani told Reuters, wiping away tears.
Leonard Farruku, an Albanian migrant who died last month on a barge housing migrants in the United Kingdom, was buried close to the Albanian capital Tirana on Wednesday in a funeral attended by his relatives. Read more at straitstimes.com.