A GHANAIAN man has died after being arrested by police and taken to Stoke Newington police station in Hackney, east London. Kwame Wirdue was a 23 year old student in Britain. Police picked him up at a Sainsbury's in Dalston on Friday of last week.
He asked for medical attention after being put in a cell. The police doctor pronounced him fit. Later on Kwame Wirdue again asked to see a doctor and police officers called an ambulance to take him to hospital. He died of cardiomyopathy, a heart condition. He did not show any symptoms of a weak heart before being arrested.
Families of those who have died in police custody are shocked at another tragedy.