Disabled Nigerian asylum seeker ‘dragged around on a chain,’ treated ‘like a goat’

‘A disabled woman who faces deportation to Nigeria by British immigration authorities has claimed she was treated “like a goat” and dragged around Heathrow Airport on a chain.
Lovelyn Edobor, a victim of trafficking and who has reduced mobility as she suffers from advanced osteoarthritis in both knees and chronic generalized arthritis, was on the brink of being removed on Saturday following several months in detention at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Center in Bedfordshire.
The 49-year-old said that although she was handed a wheelchair in detention, officials snatched it off her on the journey to the airport.’
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