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Fear of deportation led to suicides

By Liz Fekete

1 April 1995

A woman from Latvia, who feared deportation, and her daughter have been found hanged at a house in County Durham.

Zinaida Mitzofanova (63) came to Britain to join her daughter Valentina Featherstone (39) last August and was thought to have been due to go before a tribunal to appeal against a Home Office order requiring her to leave the country.

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