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"We would feel suffocated and unable to breathe well for four days after each tear gas attack," according to Ahmed, who said he had been held in the prison's youth wing.

Medical evidence about how Callum died was inconclusive, but Justice Eady said it was likely he had been suffocated possibly when wads of tissue paper were inserted into his mouth and throat.

Robertson “literally suffocated, while being completely and tragically aware of what was happening to him, but powerless to stop the inevitable result, his slow and agonizing death from oxygen deprivation,” the lawsuit said.

The Lakers have the league’s highest-rated defense over the last six weeks or so, and they once again suffocated their opponents on Friday night.

City Hall's Conservatives said the mayor had so far "suffocated" economic ambition in London and that it took the figures in the plans with a "pinch of salt".