A WRONGLY deported Windrush man was warned today that he faces jail if he returns to Britain from Jamaica.

Gersham Williams, 74, first arrived in Britain in 1961 and was deported in 2016 after being convicted and serving a sentence for a firearms conspiracy conviction.

The Home Office told Mr Williams his deportation order had been revoked as he should have been exempt, as he arrived in Britain before the Immigration Act 1971.

That law granted indefinite leave to remain to many Commonwealth citizens, but while his family became British citizens, Mr Williams decided he did not need to obtain a British passport.

Mr Williams lives in Jamaica and has neurological and urological problems, and has difficulties walking.

The Home Office revoked his deportation but because Mr Williams had received an imprisonment for a public protection (IPP) sentence, officials have warned him he could be sent back to prison on arrival in Britain.

The letter states: “You will therefore be liable to be returned to prison to serve the remainder of your sentence.”

Speaking to the Guardian newspaper, Mr Williams said he did not accept that the conviction that led to his deportation was sound.

“When I was in the UK, the police would never leave me alone — that’s the reason I’m in Jamaica now.

“I want to get an assurance from the UK government that I can come back here as a free man,” Mr Williams said.

Mr Williams’s solicitor, Jacqueline McKenzie of Leigh Day, called for the government “to agree to a statutory inquiry so that we can understand not just the causes of the Windrush scandal, but review its ongoing manifestation.”