Home Office lifts deportation order for man, 62, who has lived in UK for 50 years

Tony Hall has been prohibited from working, renting, receiving benefits or receiving full access to the NHS since 2009. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/The Guardian

The Home Office has lifted a deportation order handed to a 62-year-old man who has lived in Britain for 50 years after criticism of the department’s attempts to remove him to Barbados, a country he left as a child.

The Home Office wrote to Tony Hall on Tuesday to inform him that his deportation order had been revoked. His case had been highlighted in the Guardian a day earlier.