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Immigration centre ‘denied bipolar man meds for weeks’
Court hears detainee's condition deteriorated after he didn't get vital anti-psychotic drugs

A BIPOLAR man in immigration detention was not given his medication for nine weeks despite repeated requests, the High Court heard today.

MA did not receive anti-psychotic medication for 47 days between December 2015 and January 2016 while detained at Campsfield House and Harmondsworth immigration removal centres (IRCs), and a further two weeks between January and February 2016.

His barrister Raza Halim said the consequences were "predictable and predicted," noting: MA suffered "paranoid ideation, auditory [and] visual hallucinations" and also believed he was "being visited at night by armed men who wish to kill him."

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