‘It’s about justice’: the couple pushing for legal aid for Windrush scandal claims

Hetticia and Vanderbilt McIntosh said the Home Office’s refusal to renew their UK passports had ‘devastating’ consequences over decades. Photograph: Hetticia and Vanderbilt McIntosh

The Home Office’s refusal to renew the UK passports of a Black British former servicewoman and her husband had “devastating” consequences over decades, years after Enoch Powell’s NHS recruitment drive brought their mothers to Britain.

Hetticia and Vanderbilt McIntosh had their UK status revoked in the 1970s and 1980s, through no fault of their own. The married parents of three were forced to start again in St Lucia, more than 4,000 miles away.