‘It’s time for England to help us now’

THE sister of a Windrush victim who was forced to miss his mother’s funeral after being banned from returning to Britain said: “It’s time for England to help us now.”

Doreen Green spoke to the BBC about her brother Junior who had lived in the UK for 60 years but found himself unable to get back into the country after flying to Jamaica to be with his mother Joyce as she lay dying.

Doreen told Newsnight that he had spent months stuck in Jamaica, a country he barely knew.

She said: “People want assurances they can stay, this is their home. We helped England get where it is today, it’s time for England to help us now.”

Mr Green told BBC Two’s Newsnight: “I’m an Englishman. I’ve had all my education in this ‘We need assurances’...Doreen Green, her brother Junior and mother Joyce country, I’ve worked in this country, I’ve lived in this country.”

Mr Green, who came to Britain in 1956 when he was 15 months old, flew out to Jamaica to be with his mother before she passed away in June last year.

He said: “If I didn’t go, I probably wouldn’t see her alive again. That was a choice I had to make. Mum wins, so I went.” But on attempting to fly back to Britain, where the funeral was to take place, he was not allowed on the plane.

He insisted he had “all the evidence” to prove his right to live in the UK and did not know why he was stopped from boarding.

The matter was finally resolved after Mr Green’s MP Toby Perkins contacted the Home Office.

The Labour MP for Chesterfield described Mr Green’s experience as “inhumane”.