London (AFP) - A British court cleared three guards from private security firm G4S of manslaughter charges Tuesday over the death of an Angolan man while he was being deported.
Terrence Hughes, 53, Colin Kaler, 52, and Stuart Tribelnig, 39, were accused of restricting Jimmy Mubenga's breathing for 36 minutes as a British Airways flight to Angola prepared to take off at Heathrow.
Passengers said they heard him shouting out: "I can't breathe" as he was restrained but the three men said they never heard him shout.
Mubenga, a father of five being deported after serving a two-year jail term for assault, was taken to hospital but died of cardio-respiratory collapse.
The three were cleared after a six-week trial at the Old Bailey in London.
An inquest last year found that Mubenga, 46, was unlawfully killed after he was restrained with "unreasonable force" by the guards in October 2010.
However, jurors at the trial were not told of this verdict because of the risk it would prejudice their deliberations.
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