THE “woeful” compensation scheme for Windrush scandal victims must move faster amid “unacceptable” delays in payouts, according to a campaign backed by Baroness Doreen Lawrence and singer Annie Lennox.

The Justice4Windrush campaign is demanding “full and swift compensation” for victims, as the five-year anniversary of the scheme’s launch in April 2019 approaches.

Less than a fifth of the victims of the Windrush scandal have been paid the compensation they were promised five years ago after they were denied access to healthcare and benefits and threatened with deportation despite having the right to live in Britain.