British man deported to Jamaica launches action against Home Office

Richard Wallace at home cooking in south London. He is trying to rebuild his life in the UK and has set up a catering business. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Guardian

A British man convicted of murder is launching a legal action against the Home Office after he was wrongly deported to Jamaica.

Richard Wallace, whose parents came to Britain as part of the Windrush generation in the 1950s, was born in Paddington in London in 1969. In 1998 he was convicted of murdering a man working at a takeaway in south London.