'A race to save lives': calls for action after deaths of homeless Indians in UK

Charities press for Windrush-style taskforce to help those who want to return home

Stuck in a bureaucratic limbo that left him unable to return home to India but also unable to work or access services in Britain, Sodhi Singh spent more than a decade sleeping rough on the streets of London.

"They don't want me in India and they don't want me in the UK. I'd rather be dead than living on the streets," he said, two weeks before he died in hospital this month after being found unconscious in the car park of Redbridge council's offices in east London.