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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Melissa Sigodo

'I came to UK on Windrush and the thought of being on a ship again still frightens me'

Moving to a new country can be an exciting adventure and opportunity to start an entirely new life.

But for Ernest Theophile, leaving Dominica at six-years-old and boarding a ship for the first time, left him feeling terrified.

Now 75, he still remembers how he had never seen a vessel of that size and how till this day the thought of sailing “frightens” him.

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