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"The Home Office has agreed to fly home a member of the Windrush generation who
lived in the UK for 47 years before being wrongly deported and forced to live
on the streets of Jamaica in horrific conditions for more than a decade.
In a highly unusual move and after protracted legal action, Home Office
officials have accepted that Winston Knight, 64, is a member of the Windrush
generation and have agreed to revoke his deportation order.
Speaking to the
Guardian from Kingston, Jamaica, Knight said he was delighted
to finally be on his way back to the UK after more than a decade of enduring
horrific conditions on the streets.
“I’m doing much better now I know I have won my case and will be returning to
the UK. But I am coming from hell. I have been living in a war zone in Kingston
and I’ve had some very tough days.”
He is likely to be back in the UK in the coming weeks, possibly before Windrush
Day on 22 June, which celebrates the contribution Caribbean migrants and their
families have made to the UK. It marks the date in 1948 that
HMT Empire
Windrush docked in Tilbury, Essex, bringing hundreds of passengers from the
Caribbean to the UK.
Knight was deported from the UK in 2013 after he was convicted of stealing a
piece of jewellery during the 2011 riots, in what his lawyers described as an
“opportunistic mistake”.
He arrived in 1966 aged six, brought to the UK by people unrelated to him. He
experienced a difficult childhood in south London, was not allowed to attend
school and later worked on construction sites. The lack of school and
employment records made it difficult for him to prove he had been “ordinarily
resident” in the UK in 1973.
Like all Citizens of the UK and Colonies – a status granted before 1983 – he
was granted indefinite leave to remain. But his lawyers had to carry out
painstaking work to track down witnesses who remembered him from his childhood
and could corroborate his account of the time he arrived in the UK."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
