Man granted right to remain in UK under Windrush scheme after almost 50 years

Samuel Jarrett-Coker (left) with his sister Gladys. He has spent almost his entire life in the UK and has four British children and seven British grandchildren. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

The Home Office has granted a man who has lived in the UK since he was a child the right to remain under the Windrush scheme after a battle of almost 50 years.

Samuel Jarrett-Coker, 61, arrived in the UK at the age of 13 in 1976 from Sierra Leone on the diplomatic passport of his brother, who was 20 years older than him and worked in the country’s embassy in London.