Home Office lifts deportation order for 62-year-old who has lived in UK for 50 years

Summary

The Home Office has revoked the deportation order against Tony Hall, 62, who has lived in Britain for 50 years. The department had been trying to return him to Barbados, a country he left at the age of 12 and where he has no living relatives. It wrote to him on Tuesday to say the order had been revoked, after criticism of its attempts to remove him. The Guardian had highlighted his case a day earlier.

Timeline

1. The Guardian

   21 Oct 2026, 15:15 UTCSource ↗

   The Guardian reports that the Home Office has lifted a deportation order against Tony Hall, 62, who has lived in Britain for 50 years, after criticism of its attempts to remove him to Barbados.