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Scripts for private productions were subject to suffocating controls.

Receiving the guaranteed income had freed her from the suffocating sensation of constantly worrying about money.

Initially, their movements are stiff and restricted but, as Taylor describes suffocating relationships with emotionally-stunted men, they start to thrash and jerk their bodies.

"We would feel suffocated and unable to breathe well for four days after each tear gas attack," according to Ahmed, who said he had been held in the prison's youth wing.

Medical evidence about how Callum died was inconclusive, but Justice Eady said it was likely he had been suffocated possibly when wads of tissue paper were inserted into his mouth and throat.