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Lucia Vega Jimenez

Lucia Vega Jimenez: The inquest into the suicide death of Lucia Vega Jimenez, 42, watched on Wednesday grim close-circuit security video of the curly haired woman carrying a yellow towel from her cell in the dungeon-like holding facility below the airports hotel and into a shower stall. It then heard testimony from the young guard who cut her down, according to 660 News. After being alerted by a concerned detainee, he knocked on the bathroom door and announced he would enter if there was no response and B.C. A series of mistakes was made by the private security firm hired by Canadas border agency to guard a Mexican woman who hanged herself inside holding cells at Vancouvers airport, a coroners jury has heard. More than 40 minutes elapsed between the time Jimenez disappeared behind a door and the time Genesis Security guard Jivan Sandhu entered the womens common room in the facility. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.