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Newcastle asylum seeker leaps to his death

By Liz Fekete

15 January 2002

Souleyman Diallo, a 28-year-old asylum seeker, has died after leaping from Tyneside's Redheugh Bridge on New Year's Day because he was facing deportation to Guinea.

The dead man's solicitor has made a complaint about the way Diallo's case was handled.

Newcastle Evening Chronicle 15.1.02

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