More than 100 public figures in Britain, including former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and the acclaimed poet Benjamin Zephaniah, have signed a letter to Home Secretary Priti Patel demanding that the deportation of 22-year-old Jamaican Osime Brown be rescinded.
Brown, who has autism, was convicted of a theft while still in his teens and sentenced to five years in prison.
Under current UK legislation, any foreign national sentenced to more than a year is liable to automatic deportation. But Brown, who left Jamaica as a young child, has no relatives in the island and would be extremely vulnerable.
“He even asked ‘what bus can I take to visit you from Jamaica?’,” his mother Joan Martin told
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More than 100 public figures call for halt to Osime Brown deportation
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