Here’s an interesting – and tragic – story that’s been getting some coverage in the UK, but not a lot elsewhere. From the BBC:

Three people who plunged to their deaths from a multi-storey flat in Glasgow were a Russian family seeking asylum in the UK, the BBC understands.

The father, mother and son had been granted asylum in Canada but left after a dispute with the authorities there.

Their application to remain in the UK had recently been refused but they had not been issued with a removal order.

There’s a little piece in RIA Novosti, and some speculation from some of the Scottish press that the father had claimed he was a spy:

The desperate mother, father and 21-year-old son tied themselves together before their 15-storey plunge on Sunday morning.

It’s understood the father, believed to be a Mr Serykh, may have had mental health problems and had claimed to be a Russian spy.

A source said last night: “This family were in no danger and were not about to be deported. The father was delusional and it seems he pulled his wife and son into his paranoia.”

[...]“The father became ill and he was convinced the Canadian PM and Vladimir Putin were exchanging intelligence and that the Canadians were after him.”

The last sentence perhaps explains why the family were not seeking asylum from Russia, as was initially thought, but from Canada.