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The Home Secretary has formally conceded that Winston Knight, a 64-year-old man who arrived in the UK in the 1960s as a small child is a member of the Windrush generation and has undertaken to take urgent steps to allow him to return to the UK after 12 years.
Mr Knight arrived from Jamaica in 1966 at the age of six and, like all Citizens of the UK and Colonies resident here on 1 January 1973, was granted indefinite leave to remain. In 2013, after 47 years of uninterrupted life in London, he was unlawfully deported to Jamaica following a minor offence. With no friends, family, or home he has spent the past twelve years homeless, destitute and exposed to an extremely volatile environment in Kingston, Jamaica.
Miranda Butler represented Mr Knight in his judicial review claim challenging the Home Secretary’s refusal to revoke his deportation order, thereby excluding him from the UK. While the Home Secretary withdrew a first refusal in the face of this challenge, she thereafter made a further negative decision which she upheld until shortly before a final hearing.
The Home Secretary now accepts that Mr Knight is what he has always maintained, namely a member of the Windrush generation whom she never had any power to deport.
Mr Knight’s case has been covered by Diane Taylor in the Guardian.
Miranda was instructed by Nina Kamp and Albert Cammack of Duncan Lewis Solicitors and led by Nicola Braganza KC of Garden Court Chambers.
