Delroy Edwards
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Delroy Edwards (1959 – 12 November 2005) was a Jamaican refugee who, after being refused political asylum in the United Kingdom, was killed by Yardie gang members a few days after his deportation to Jamaica. The refusal to grant him asylum and the later deportation were publicly criticised, and called into question some of the immigration policies of the Home Office and the Immigration Adjudicator.
A longtime resident of Kingston, Edwards was frequently harassed during the 1990s after refusing to participate in criminal activities of a
Despite his claims of persecution (including an incident in which he been warned by an unidentified individual that he would be killed if he returned to Jamaica) and as showing the wounds in his shoulders and hands, he was declared an