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Family being "ripped apart" by deportation
A FATHER of three who faces imminent deportation to Jamaica has told the Star he “can't think of any pain worse” than the Home Office “ripping my family apart.”
Junior Kerr, 40, who has lived in Britain since 2001, is one of 50 people scheduled for forced removal on a charter flight on Tuesday.
He was detained on January 28 by immigration officials while signing on with the Home Office in Croydon with his two youngest children, aged seven and nine.
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