Windrush case: UK to give Albert Thompson indefinite right to remain

Lawyers for man denied cancer care say home secretary’s confirmation is a ‘real relief’

Albert Thompson, the Windrush victim who was denied NHS cancer care, is to be granted indefinite leave to remain, his lawyers have confirmed.

Thompson was told he would have to pay £54,000 for the radiotherapy treatment he needed for prostate cancer because he could not provide officials with sufficient documentary evidence that he had lived in the UK continuously since arriving from Jamaica as a teenager in 1973.

Whilst this is welcome, he should never have been treated in this cruel and degrading way in the first place.

There is no doubt about it; the chain of causation in this case goes all the way to the Prime Minister and the decisions she made as Home Secretary. (2/2)

Continue reading... April 26, 2018 at 11:39PM