Escort staff are to receive training in a new, safer system of restraint from next month, almost four years after the death of Jimmy Mubenga in 2010. Immigration minister James Brokenshire told MPs the training would help "de-escalate situations and minimise the use of restraint". Mubenga died after being restrained by three G4S guards on board a plane at Heathrow that was bound for Angola in October 2010.

The announcement comes after a highly critical report from Nick Hardwick, the chief inspector of prisons. Hardwick expressed concern that the Tascor private security staff who now carry out deportations from Britain knew little of the outcome of the inquiry into 46-year-old Mubenga's death.  "Escorts had still not been provided with training on the use of force in confined environments, such as aircraft, two and half years since inspectors first recommended it," he said in an inspection report on a mass deportation charter flight to Pakistan.It also follows the court of appeal heard a legal challenge this month brought by human rights organisations Liberty and Inquest, over a refusal to disclose the policy of restraint on individuals being removed from the UK. Read more here