Clive Myrie's dying brother 'blocked from visiting land of birth' amid Windrush scandal
ok.co.ukClive Myrie has spoken of how the Windrush scandal hit his family as he called the Home Office policy an “utter disgrace”.The newsreader, 59, reveals in an upcoming book Everything Is Everything: A Memoir Of Love, Hate & Hope, that it meant his dying brother was blocked from visiting the country of his birth.
Clive was born and raised in Bolton, Greater Manchester, but was the son of Windrush generation parents, who moved to the UK with his older siblings.
He claimed in extracts, published in The Times, that his older half-brother, Peter, was unable to travel to Jamaica with his daughter to show her the Caribbean country and died before he could go following a prostate cancer diagnosis, according to Myrie.
Another half-brother, Lionel, was denied benefits and healthcare before being able to prove he was in a school choir due to a pre-1971 Bolton Evening News photograph.The BBC Mastermind presenter said Lionel was still awaiting both compensation and a British passport.
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