It is as if they are deliberately planning on people dying to pay out less money

Windrush scandal delay fear

- MELISSA SIGODO

SUPPORTERS of victims of the Windrush scandal fear the Home Office is planning for people to pass away so they pay less money in compensation.

Campaigners are calling on PM Rishi Sunak to meet with victims after a Human Rights Watch report this week found the compensation scheme was "designed to fail those who were supposed to benefit".

The scheme was set up after it emerged in 2017 that Black British citizens from the Caribbean, who had been invited to the UK to help rebuild the country after the Second World War, were wrongly deported or detained.

A former Royal Air Force serviceman of 30 years, Sidney McFarlane, 88, who came from Jamaica as part of the Windrush generation, condemned the findings of the HRW report as "appalling".