Claim: An asylum seeker who died aboard the Bibby Stockholm barge on 12 December was a doctor from Cameroon called Mickael Essouma.
Fact-check: Asylum seeker who died aboard Bibby Stockholm misidentified as doctor from Cameroon - Full Fact
Verdict: this is incorrect. the man who died has been named as leonard farruku, an albanian national.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Charlotte Green
Date published: 2023-12-22T00:00:00