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Home Office accused of racism over Jamaica 50 charter flight
Campaigners outside Downing Street last night demand government cancel ‘racist’ deportation flight [Torla Evans]

A MAN who was shot and tortured in Jamaica “will be dead within a month” if he is forcibly deported, his partner told the Star.

Christopher, 45, is one of 50 people due to be put on a charter flight next Tuesday — the second to the country since the Windrush scandal in 2018.

His long-term partner Margaret Holmes, an Irish national, told the Star that he fled Jamaica in 2001 from gang violence.

(Pic: Torla Evans)
Margaret Holmes fears her partner Christopher will be killed in Jamaica (Pic: Torla Evans)
Anti-racist protesters outside Downing Street (Pic: Torla Evans)
Labour's shadow immigration officer Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Pic: Torla Evans)
(Pic: Torla Evans)
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