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17 Apr 2024

Windrush scandal: returning to the UK after a forty year wait

News Correspondent

Imagine going on a family holiday and being told you have no right to return to the only place you have ever called home. That’s what happened to 70-year-old Richard Black, who went to Trinidad from the UK 40 years ago to visit his in-laws.

He’s thought to be one of the earliest victims of the Windrush scandal.

Four decades later he’s finally been given the right to return to London.