I can’t even visit family

Tears: Icilda Williams, 84 A WINDRUSH pensioner was prevented from returning to Britain to meet her greatgrandchildren, despite serving the NHS for almost 30 years.

Retired nurse Icilda Williams, 84, has seven children, 20 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren all living in Britain, but she has been banned from even applying for a visa to visit.

The widow, who retired to Jamaica with her husband Kenneth in 1996, had travelled to and from the Caribbean almost every year before the Home Office crackdown in 2014.

‘It is heartbreaking,’ she said. ‘I feel very lonely without being able to see my family and I find myself crying at night.’

Mrs Williams arrived in Britain to join her husband, a cabinet maker, in 1962 before the couple settled in Bradford.