NO LEGAL action will be taken in relation to the death of an 11-year-old refugee in a school dining hall.
Asylum-seeker Suhail Saleh collapsed at All Saints Roman Catholic Secondary School in the Barmulloch area of Glasgow on February 24.
He was allegedly involved in a scuffle at the school shortly after 11.30am and was later pronounced dead at the city’s Stobhill Hospital. A 12-year-old boy was arrested in connection with the death but was released pending the result of further investigations by the procurator fiscal.
But the Crown Office said yesterday it had decided no proceedings would be taken.
“Following careful consideration of all the facts and circumstances, Crown Counsel have instructed that no further action should be taken in relation to this matter,” it said in a statement.
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Suhail’s family came to Scotland in 2000 from Djibouti. The boy had been living with his family at flats close to the school after the family fled Mogadishu.
Following the incident, All Saints headteacher Thomas McDonald said that it was the kind of thing which could happen at “any school, anywhere, at any time”.
One in ten of the school’s pupils is either an asylum-seeker or refugee who has had their asylum claim approved.