Jamaican diplomat criticises Home Office over deportation flight

Up to 50 Jamaicans, some of whom came to UK as children, are due to be on flight next week

Jamaica's top diplomat in the UK has said he is deeply concerned" about Home Office plans to send people who came to the country as children back to the Caribbean island on a deportation flight next week.

Deportation flights to Jamaica raise particular concerns because of the Windrush scandal. Although the Home Office says nobody from the Windrush generation will be on next week's flight, some due to fly have Windrush family connections and many have lived a substantial part of their childhoods in the UK, including one person who arrived when he was three months old.