Migrant's death in van - Officer said he may have died 'of fright'

A Detention Service officer told a court today how he had received a call from a colleague, telling him that a migrant they were escorting had died in their van, possibly because of ‘fright’. The court was continuing the compilation of evidence against soldiers Clive Cuschieri and Mark Anthony Dimech who stand accused of the murder of Malian migrant Mamdou Kamara after he was beaten in a Detenetion Service van in June. Taking the witness stand, Marie Therese Camilleri Podesta and Ali Safraz, pathologists, said that they carried out a post-mortem examination on Mr  Kamara and established that the cause of death was due to vasovagel inhibition due to severe pain following blunt trauma. Marcel Schembri, a medical doctor  at the Floriana health centre, said that on June 29 at about 2 p.m. the victim went to the health centre. He could remember that there was a commotion when the victim arrived because he did not want to stay in the queue. He was accompanied by soldiers of the detention centre. It was around 2pm. AFM Sergeant Raymond Casha said that later that afternoon Clive Cuschieri turned up at Safi detention centre together with another officer and the victim, which they had...