Eric Hall has 28 convictions but his family says he was not well enough to be put on a Home Office plane to Jamaica.
Eric's legal team say they were challenging his deportation but were not sent key paperwork from the Home Office which must be served legally within three days of someone's departure.
Eric is too unwell to be interviewed - but in a remote farming town in the south-west of Jamaica we meet his elderly stepfather - Errol Brown. He talks to us on a hilly main road, outside a parade of boarded-up shops. Before his removal from the UK, Eric's family say he had been refusing to take any medication, and that on his arrival in Jamaica it appeared as if he had been heavily drugged. They say he didn't recognise his stepfather in Jamaica's capital, Kingston, and had no memory of how he got there.
"He only has his stepfather to look after him in a strange country that he left when he was 10 years old," she says. Deportation flights are used to remove both foreign criminals who have finished UK jail sentences and other foreign nationals who have stayed in the country longer than legally permitted. Between April 2020 and May 2022, the Home Office carried out 130 enforced-return charter flights - at an average cost of £200,000 per trip.
In the UK, the family has developed a close relationship with their local MP who is now challenging the government. Janet Daby raised a question in parliament on the day Eric was deported and supports all of the family's claims.
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