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Daily Mirror
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Kieren Williams

‘I can't celebrate Windrush Day until I'm reunited with my sister after 36 years apart’

For many, the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush won’t be a time of celebration, but a reminder of the hardships and challenges they’ve faced at the hands of successive governments.

Camrick Baynes is one of countless people of Caribbean lineage who made his life over here in England.

The HMT Empire Windrush which docked in Tilbury, Essex, 75 years ago this week. in answer to a Government call to the Commonwealth to help rebuild the United Kingdom but thousands were wrongly detained, and some even deported.

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