Exorcism victim was ‘restrained’

A marketing consultant who died during a ‘botched exorcism’ at the hands of his family had been repeatedly restrained, a court heard. Kennedy Ife, 26, died after suffering a cardiac arrest at the family home in Barnet, north London, on 22 October 2016. Mr Ife believed he had been ‘possessed by evil spirits’ and his relatives decided to restrain him rather than insisting on immediate medical assistance. His father Kenneth, 64, mother Josephine, 56, and brothers Roy, 33, Harry, 32,…