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My son with schizophrenia was 'unlawfully deported' to Jamaica






The family of a man with schizophrenia is taking legal action against the Home Office for allegedly unlawfully deporting him to Jamaica.

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Eric Hall, who arrived in the UK aged 10, has convictions for theft, drugs and possession of an offensive weapon.

The Home Office denies relatives' claims he was sedated before a flight and says the deportation was lawful.

It says the rights of the British public are put before those of dangerous criminals.

Although he was born in Jamaica, the 38-year-old moved to the UK with his family in the early 1990s and was granted indefinite leave to remain.

He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in his early teens, and his family and legal team say most of his past criminal behaviour - he has 28 convictions for 55 offences - was largely down to his poor mental health. They believe he has only ever been a danger to himself, rather than wider society - and that he continues to be seriously vulnerable.

Critics of the Home Office policy say Eric's deportation, on grounds of his Jamaican citizenship, has echoes of the Windrush scandal. In 2018, many adult children of post-war Caribbean migrants, despite having lived and worked in the UK for decades, were told they no longer had the right to stay. The scandal led to the government apologising for Home Office immigration mistakes against Caribbean migrants and their subsequent mistreatment.

Before he was arrested in early March, Eric had been living in supported housing in east London and was being cared for by a mental health community team. His family says if he was sent a letter by the Home Office about his deportation he would not have understood its significance.

Eric was taken to a detention centre where, his lawyers and family say, his mental state deteriorated considerably. He repeatedly told them he had not been served any deportation papers and did not think he was about to be flown out of the country.