Man burns himself at WA detention centre

A foreign detainee is reportedly in a critical condition after setting himself on fire at a detention centre in Western Australia.

A media report on Wednesday in Sydney said the 40-year-old man wrapped himself in a sheet, doused it with lighter fluid and lit it on fire. “It is not appropriate to comment further at this time”.

The statement said WA Police were now investigating the death.

The court had also sentenced him to 300 hours of community service besides his visa was cancelled and laced on the sex offenders register for 15 years over an incident involving a teenage boy in Geelong in November 2012.

A 27-year-old Afghan asylum seeker died at Yongah Hill last month, three weeks after being attacked during a brawl that involved up to 50 detainees, and in which five guards were injured.

The charge related to accessing images and videos of teen boys and girls on his laptop at the St Kilda Public Library between July 2012 and May 2014, the ABC reported past year.

Jafarri was being held in immigration detention, but could not be deported to Afghanistan because he had been recognised as a refugee.

Questions are now being raised over how a man with a history of self-harm was left alone, and how he was able to access the accelerant used to burn himself.

Yesterday Refugee Action Coalition spokesman Ian Rintoul said no crime warranted an indefinite detention and Serco, who operate Yongah Hill, had been negligent in their duties to keep Jaffari safe.

“There needs to be a proper and thorough investigation into how this could have happened”.