Nancy Motsamai died five days after collapsing in Heathrow airport whilst she was about to be deported. Her husband claims the home office staff thought she was pretending to faint to avoid deportation.
The South African couple had struggled to get permanent visas since settling here through administration errors and Fusi Motsamai had been deported at short notice before and both of them wrongly detained for four weeks in 2017.
Last month they were taken to Heathrow airport to be deported and the couple were separated until Fusi got a call saying Nancy had collapsed. On 12th March, Nancy died at their home due to a pulmonary embolism in the lungs caused by an underlying, previously undiagnosed health condition.
Fusi Montsamai said they shouldn’t even have been at Heathrow airport because they had a judicial review approaching: “I sent them an email with a court reference and everything but they didn’t take my word for it”.
He said he wants the home office staff to “start treating people with dignity” and that his wife: “hated the injustice, she hated seeing people suffering because of the home office so all along she just wanted her story to be reported so it can help others, so it can open the eyes of the public.”
He added: “Hopefully the system will change – there must be no more injustice for people.”
The couple were strongly supported by their church family…
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