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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Shaheena Uddin

Windrush victim ‘hospitalised’ over stress of compensation battle with Home Office

Hetticia McIntosh and her husband Vanderbilt McIntosh - (Hetticia and Vanderbilt McIntosh)

A Windrush victim has criticised delays to the compensation scheme and claimed the lack of contact from the Home Office about her husband’s claim has left her hospitalised with stress.

Hetticia and Vanderbilt McIntosh, both 70, moved to the UK when they were just six-years-old in the 1960s, but were forced back to the Caribbean after they were both mistakenly refused new British passports in the late 1970s.

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