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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Diane Taylor

UK agrees to fly home wrongly deported Windrush generation man from Jamaica

Winston Knight.
Knight photographed while living on the streets of Kingston in 2018, five years after he was deported. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

The Home Office has agreed to fly home a member of the Windrush generation who lived in the UK for 47 years before being wrongly deported and forced to live on the streets of Jamaica in horrific conditions for more than a decade.

In a highly unusual move and after protracted legal action, Home Office officials have accepted that Winston Knight, 64, is a member of the Windrush generation and have agreed to revoke his deportation order.

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