A student has received £2.7 million from the US government after he was locked in a cell and abandoned for four days, his lawyer said.
Daniel Chong was held in a drugs raid last year, but was told he would not be charged. However, he was left in his cell without food or water and claims he was “forgotten”.
Mr Chong, 25, who is studying economics at the University of California, said he drank his urine to stay alive, tried to carve a message to his mother on his arm and was hallucinating by the third day. He said he screamed and kicked at the door and slid a shoelace under it to get attention, before five or six people found him covered in his faeces at the Drug Enforcement Administration HQ in San Diego.
The justice department’s inspector is investigating the incident.
