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Just as trailers for the BBC’s Windrush drama Sitting in Limbo were released at the start of this month, Anthony Bryan, who was wrongly imprisoned for five weeks after mistakenly being classified as an illegal immigrant, and whose story is dramatised in the film, received an interim offer of compensation from the Home Office. It was two and a half years after officials first realised they had made an error, and more than two years since the then prime minister, Theresa May first apologised for the Home Office’s mistakes. The compensation letter came exactly a week before the film was due to go out on television, and the timing of its arrival made him very thoughtful.
A few days before Sitting in Limbo was broadcast, emails and calls started coming from the private office of the home secretary, Priti Patel, asking if Bryan would join a video call with her just an hour before the film went out. The home secretary is “actively thinking” about “giving a voice” to the Windrush generation, one email read, “and feels it vitally important to hear directly from affected members of the community, such as Mr Bryan”.
It looks like there is a lot of work that needs to be done there. Some need to get really busy.
A few days before Sitting in Limbo was broadcast, emails and calls started coming from the private office of the home secretary, Priti Patel, asking if Bryan would join a video call with her just an hour before the film went out. The home secretary is “actively thinking” about “giving a voice” to the Windrush generation, one email read, “and feels it vitally important to hear directly from affected members of the community, such as Mr Bryan”.
The Windrush generation deserves justice â not video chats with the home secretary
Anthony Bryan’s ordeal was about to be dramatised in a BBC drama, Sitting in Limbo. Then the phone rang, says Guardian reporter Amelia Gentleman
www.theguardian.com
It looks like there is a lot of work that needs to be done there. Some need to get really busy.