Article 5BJNV More than 100 public figures call for halt to Osime Brown deportation

More than 100 public figures call for halt to Osime Brown deportation

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Letter to Priti Patel says sending man with autism to Jamaica, which he left aged four, is a death sentence'

More than 100 public figures, including the former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and the Labour peer Alf Dubs, have written to the home secretary calling for her to stop the deportation of a man with autism to Jamaica.

Osime Brown, 22, from Dudley, faces being sent to Jamaica, which he left when he was four, after being jailed over the robbery of a friend's mobile phone, a crime he says he did not commit.

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