The lawyer representing the family of a Nigerian student who died in Immigration Department custody in July last year plans to call the victim's friends, who were detained together with him, to testify in the inquest into the death.

According to lawyer Rajesh Nagarajan, friends of the victim Thomas Orhions Ewansiha claimed that Ewansiha had been asking for medical assistance for three days prior to his death on July 9 last year...