coming up on bbc news: two debutants in the england women s team to take on australia tomorrow. pace bowler lauren filer and danni wyatt will lead the line up as england try and regain the ashes. the bbc has uncovered evidence showing that hundreds of chronically sick and mentally ill patients from the windrush generation were sent back to the caribbean 7 in what the government has admitted was an historic injustice . legal experts say the practice may have been unlawful, and the families of those affected are calling for an inquiry. 0ur correspondent navtej johal has the story. i never had a father. i never had a father figure in my life. when she was just eight years old, june s father, joseph armatrading, vanished from her life. he had arrived in britain from st kitts in 1954 as part of the windrush generation.
when she was just eight years old, june s father, joseph armatrading, vanished from her life. he had arrived in britain from st kitts in 1954 as part of the windrush generation. he had a wife and five daughters, but he was in a hospital struggling with his mental health. and in 1966, her mother told them that he had gone back home, never to be seen by them again. i did feel, and i still do, we was abandoned. we were left. it s a massive, big heart break. because you just think.why me? we re about to showjune documents that will transform her understanding of her own life. really sad because. oh, sorry. they reveal thatjoseph armatrading was repatriated to st kitts on mental health grounds. but, upon arrival, he wrote to the uk government that he wanted
the south. but we will also see rain coming in from the west. the bbc has uncovered evidence showing that hundreds of chronically sick and mentally ill patients from the windrush generation were sent back to the caribbean in what the government has called an historic injustice . legal experts say the practice may have been unlawful and the families of those affected are calling for an inquiry. 0ur correspondent navtej johal has this exclusive story. i never had a father. i never had a father figure in my life. when she was just eight years old, june s father, joseph armatrading, vanished from her life. he had arrived in britain from st kitts in 1954 as part of the windrush generation. he had a wife and five daughters, but he was in a hospital struggling with his mental health. and in 1966, her mother told them that he had gone back home, never to be seen by them again.
is the first time they ve spoken about it publicly. i did feel, and i still do, we was abandoned. we were left. in 1966, 12 years after he arrived in britain from the caribbean island of st kitts, june s father, joseph armatrading, was repatriated after being hospitalised due to a mental illness. his wife and five daughters never saw him again. really sad because. oh, sorry. but it s only in the course of our researching this story thatjune has learned the truth about what happened to him, including that he wanted to return to his family and that mistakes were made in his case by the uk government. how dare they? this was a vulnerable man. you re supposed to look after your vulnerable people. and they didn t, theyjust left him. they abandoned him. marcia s mother, another member of the windrush generation, was also sent back from britain on mental health grounds
and families are demanding an inquiry, as our correspondent navteonhal reports. i never had a father. i never had a father figure in my life. i couldn t say the word love. it s taken me years, years to really use that word. the trauma of what happened to these women as children has never left them. nearly 60 years on, this is the first time they ve spoken about it publicly. i did feel, and i still do, we was abandoned. we were left. in 1966, 12 years after he arrived in britain from the caribbean island of st kitts, june s father, joseph armatrading, was repatriated after being hospitalised due to a mental illness. his wife and five daughters never saw him again. really sad because. oh, sorry.