Steady trickle of Dorset residents stop to leave a card or flowers and pay their respects

There was a steady trickle of people making their way to the pavement just outside the gates of Portland Port. Some placed flowers and cards; others just stood for a few minutes and paid their respects.

The news that a man seeking asylum had apparently taken his life while housed on the Bibby Stockholm, the hulking barge berthed at the port, has shocked the people of this tucked-away corner of Dorset.

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