The Home Office has agreed to bring home members of the Windrush generation, who lived in the UK for 47 years before being wrongly deported and forced to live on the streets of Jamaica for more than a decade.

After very unusual moves and protracted legal actions, Interior Department officials accepted Winston Knight, 64, a member of the Windrush generation and agreed to revoke his deportation order.

The Knight told the guardian of Kingston, Jamaica that he was delighted to finally return to England after more than a decade of horrible conditions.

"I'm doing better now, now I know I've won the case and will return to the UK. But I'm from Hell. I've been living in the war zone in Kingston and I've had some tough days."

He may return to the UK before Windrush Day on June 22, which celebrates the contributions of Caribbean immigrants and their families to the UK. It marked the date when the 1948 HMT Empire Windrush was docked in Tilbury, Essex, bringing hundreds of passengers from the Caribbean to the UK.

Knight was deported in 2013 after being convicted of stealing a piece of jewelry during the 2011 riot, which his lawyers called was an "opportunistic mistake."

He reached six in 1966 and was brought to England by people who had nothing to do with him. He went through a difficult childhood in south London, not allowed to go to school, and later worked on a construction site. The lack of school and employment records made it difficult for him to prove that he "usually resided" in the UK in 1973.

Like all citizens of Britain and the colonies - status granted before 1983 - he was granted indefinite leave. But his lawyers had to do a hard job to track down witnesses who remembered him from childhood and could confirm his description of the time he arrived in England.

When he was illegally deported in 2013, the Windrush scandal revealed by The Guardian has not yet appeared. Knight said he was so desperate when he was detained at the Harmondsworth Immigration Evacuation Center near Heathrow Airport that he was forced to return to a country he didn't know that he repeatedly attempted suicide.

But despite his fragile mental state, his deportation continued, and he found himself homeless on the streets of Kingston, where he was caught in a firefight of a gang war. He said the violence he witnessed had traumatized him deeply.

The Guardian reported on his case in 2018 and interviewed him in Kingston. At the time, he asked him not to use his real name, but to mention it by David Jameson.

He proposed a judicial review that he was exempt from deportation, and a few hours before the last hearing on May 15, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper admitted Knight was a member of the Windrews generation.

"For more than a decade, Mr. Kant's homelessness hurt in an extremely turbulent environment, without any support. The physical and psychological losses are profound.

She added: "This case is listed as the worst Windrush injustice we have ever seen - not only because he was ruled out for 12 years, but because the Home Secretary held a position that could not be defended until the last moment, unnecessarily prolonged and exacerbated his pain."

The Knight was placed in a hotel before returning to England. "I've been sleeping in bed for the first time since I was deported here," he said. "I've witnessed a lot of murders and stabbings and seen so many people being beaten up. I survived eating vegetables on markets, bread and bananas. I'm called "English" and "Deported" in Jamaica."

He said his days were playing football in a Sunday league at the New Cross in South London, in what he really missed. “I would love to do this again and start painting and decorating again,” he said. “I’m a working person.

"I have a lot of ups and downs here, mostly falls, but now I'm back in England, I feel great. Thank God for surviving. I've been calling for years, but no one listens to me."