Unlawfully deported Windrush man will be flown home

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

- Diane Taylor

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 agreed to revoke his deportation order.

Speaking to the Guardian from Kingston, Jamaica, Knight said he was delighted to finally be on his way back to Britain after more than a decade of enduring horrific conditions on the streets.

"I'm doing much better now I know I have won my case and will be returning to the UK," he said. "But I am coming from hell. I have been living in a war zone in Kingston and I've had some very tough days."

He is expected to return in the coming weeks, possibly before Windrush Day on 22 June, which celebrates the contribution Caribbean immigrants and their families have made to Britain. It marks the date in 1948 when HMT Empire Windrush docked in Tilbury, Essex, bringing hundreds of passengers from the Caribbean.