UK’s ‘Windrush’ compensation scheme is failing victims, says rights group

The British government’s scheme to compensate victims of the “Windrush” scandal is failing, a rights group said on today, more than five years after the wrongful deportation and detention of Britons of Caribbean origin was exposed.  

After living and working in the UK for decades, thousands of people who came to the UK between 1948 and the early 1970s were asked to meet impossible government requirements to prove their right to live in Britain.