THE family of a man who died last year after 15 years of fighting for the legal right to stay in Britain have still not received compensation. 

Hubert Howard came to Britain at the age of three from Jamaica in the 1960s and grew up in east London. 

He started to have problems in 2005 when he applied for a passport to see his sick mother in Jamaica. 

The Home Office told him there was no record of him and warned that if he left he might not be able to re-enter the country.

Mr Howard’s mother passed away before he had the chance to visit her. 

In 2012, Mr Howard was dismissed from his job at the Peabody housing association after he was unable to prove his legal right to be in the country. 

Over the next eight years, Mr Howard fell into debt and his mental and physical health deteriorated. 

He died in November 2019, just three weeks after he was given British citizenship but without compensation or an apology from the Home Office. 

Mr Howard had been battling leukaemia and diabetes, which he  claimed had got worse due to the stress of fighting for 15 years to prove his legal right to stay in Britain. 

His daughter Maresha Howard Rose says that they have still not received compensation from the Home Office under the Windrush Compensation Scheme. 

Ms Rose told the Huffington Post that a previous offer by the government department had been an “unsatisfactory” and “insulting” amount. 

She added: “The fact that people — like my dad — are dying before they receive their compensation, struggling with their mental health, ill after not being allowed treatment in hospitals is outrageous.”

Windrush scandal victim Michael Braithwaite, who arrived from Barbados as a child in 1961, said he had also not received compensation two years after the scheme was implemented. 

“I might be dead before I get any compensation that I’m due,” he said.

Official figures published last month revealed that fewer than 5 per cent of claims made have been paid out.

Reflecting on the scandal on Windrush Day, the 68-year-old married father of three, who has six grandchildren and lives in north London, said the ordeal of “being told I was nobody” still made him “very emotional.”

“I was not recognised as part of where I live, the work I’ve done, my journey was taken away.”