Simon Israel

A dozen Caribbean High Commissioners have called on the British Government to stop treating people who came to the UK as children half a century ago as if they are ‘illegal immigrants’. Their demand follows revelations on this programme about people who arrived and settled in the UK in the 1960s but are now being…

Since January, Channel 4 News has been reporting the plight of the Windrush kids. They came to UK as children, attended British schools, worked British jobs and built British lives. Now thousands of people who arrived in the UK decades ago – in the first wave of Commonwealth immigration in the 1950s and 60s – are living with the threat of deportation.

“I feel like an alien, I’ve had sleepless nights and fears of a knock at the door”. Not the words of a fugitive, but a father and grandfather who’s lived in the UK for 57 years. Michael Braithwaite was a child when he came here from Barbados in 1961. But he’s become one of thousands…

The Ministry of Justice has admitted responsibility for submitting an incomplete dossier to the Parole Board panel which decided to release the black cab rapist John Worboys. But it said that the Parole Board did have sufficient evidence to conclude that Worboys should have stayed behind bars. The former head of the Parole Board, who was…

A Parole Board decision to release the rapist John Worboys has been overturned by three high court judges after a legal challenge by two victims. The chairman of the Parole Board, Nick Hardwick, was forced to resign after Justice Secretary David Gauke said his position had become untenable.

When the suicide bomber Salman Abedi detonated his device at an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena last May, 22 people were killed and more than 100 were injured. Today it’s been revealed that there was serious confusion among firefighters responding to the attack, which led to a two-hour delay in them reaching the…

The Home Office says it will not support legislation which would make it easier for refugee families to be reunited in the UK. MPs today voted in favour of a private member’s bill which would allow child refugees to sponsor relatives to join them and would restore legal aid in such cases in England and…

A week after the nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in Salisbury, hundreds of people who went to the city’s Zizzi restaurant or the Mill pub have been told to wash their clothes and possessions. The risk is very low, but some members of the public want to know why the advice wasn’t issued earlier.

The Home Secretary has given more details about the investigation into the attempted murder of Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter – revealing that police are looking at more than 240 pieces of evidence. Following an emergency Cobra meeting on the suspected nerve agent attack in Salisbury, Amber Rudd said over 200 witnesses have been identified.

Theresa May is being urged to intervene over the Home Office’s treatment of former child migrants who came here from the West Indies during the 60s. Caribbean high commissioners say they want their immigration status treated as a special category. It follows the case of Anthony Bryan, who faced removal to Jamaica even though he’d…

A sharp drop in EU immigration has been revealed in net migration figures published today. It may be good news for the Prime Minister’s pledge to bring down net migration to the hundreds of thousands. But many argue there is a heavy price being paid for tightening immigration controls: unfilled positions in the care sector…

An inquest jury has found a catalogue of failures inside Wandsworth Prison contributed to the death of a teenage Lithuanian who hanged himself in his segregation block cell. Eighteen-year-old Osvaldas Pagirys was in prison for stealing sweets and wanted in his home country for mobile phone theft. The Prisons Ombudsman described a 37-minute delay in…

A scientist once described as one of Cambridge University’s finest students has been jailed for 32 years for a string of offences including voyeurism, blackmail and the rape of a child. Twenty-nine-year-old Doctor Matthew Falder pleaded guilty to 137 charges after a four-year investigation by the National Crime Agency. One of his 50 victims said…

The former football coach Barry Bennell has been found guilty of multiple sex offences against young footballers at a trial at Liverpool Crown Court, with some verdicts still outstanding. During the trial the 64-year-old was described as a “child molester on an industrial scale” who would not just groom his victims, but also their families.

They were known as ‘The Beatles’ because of their British accents: now the two surviving members thought to belong to a notorious gang of Islamic State fighters have been captured in north-east Syria. Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, along with two other Londoners, have been linked to a series of hostage murder, including that…