Donald dedicated his life to others. Then he faced a terrifying accusation

When a solicitor told Donald Biggs he could be deported at any time he admits: “It scared the living daylights out of me”.

When the Empire Windrush ship docked at Tilbury in 1948, it was carrying hundreds of people from Commonwealth Caribbean islands, who had been invited and encouraged to move to a war-ravaged Britain with severe labour shortages, including RAF airmen who had served in World War II. They were the vanguard of a community who went into the NHS in its earliest days, public transport and British industry.

Thousands who had arrived legally between the forties and the seventies, by then in middle age or later life, were treated as criminals overnight, detained and threatened with deportation if they could not ‘prove’ their right to remain in the UK. Men and women were deported to countries they had left as small children, where they knew no-one and had nothing. Several people died.

When he moved on from that job he applied for a number of jobs but didn’t get offered any. When he asked for feedback he was told he didn’t have the correct documents. “So I went to see a solicitor and he scared the living daylights out of me by telling me I was an illegal immigrant. It really frightened me and I just went into a bubble.”

During this period Donald and his partner went on holiday to Spain. Apprehensive, he contacted the Home Office to confirm he was allowed to travel - and was told he was. “I wouldn’t want anyone else to go through that,” He hopes that by speaking out about his experience, it will help other survivors of the Windrush scandal and encourage people to claim compensation.

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