Winston Jones was admitted to hospital with a brain aneurysm in 2014, which he attributes to the stress he was under as he tried to sort out his passport problems.
The 62-year-old spent five months in hospital, where staff told the former British Rail worker that he might need to pay for his treatment, even though he had paid UK taxes for more than 40 years.
“They showed me a bill for the brain operation. I think it was £5,000,” he said.
Upon discharge, he had nowhere to go because he had lost his home as a result of official doubts about his right to be in the UK. Hospital staff had been unable to find him a bed in a homeless shelter; having been classed as an “illegal immigrant” he was ineligible for a bed in a state-funded hostel. Despite his precarious health and lack of accommodation, he was allowed to leave the hospital and began sleeping rough. He had no warm clothes and few belongings because when was he evicted all his things had been thrown away.
“I wasn’t at all well. It was January or February; I was freezing that night. It was so cold I thought I was going to die,” he said.
this is a direct consequence of theresa may’s hostile environment and it’s not an isolated case. theresa may is a ruthless and calculated racist and needs to go, along with the rest of her party.
‘I thought I would die’: Windrush man left homeless after brain surgery
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