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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Amelia Gentleman

Windrush generation: hundreds ‘sent back to Caribbean from UK hospitals’

Turtle Bay in St Kitts
St Kitts, where Windrush generation member Joseph Armatrading was sent back to after he was diagnosed with paranoid psychosis in the 1960s. Photograph: Jason Bryan/Alamy

Hundreds of long-term sick and mentally ill people from the Windrush generation were repatriated to the Caribbean from UK hospitals, sometimes without giving informed consent, according to a BBC investigation.

Analysis of formerly classified National Archives documents found that about 400 people were sent back to their countries of birth between the 1950s and the 1970s under a scheme that was supposed to be voluntary but that may not have involved a proper consent process.

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