and the south—west of england. it is through sunday that we are anticipating these showers becoming increasingly lively. thundery for northern ireland and northern and western scotland and with the rain arriving, we start to see things becoming cooler here. some isolated showers possible further west, but very little in the way of significant rainfall i think for england and wales on sunday. it is monday that we start to see wetter conditions coming in here. hello. this is bbc news. i'm luxmy gopal and these are the headlines... a man has reportedly been charged with attempted murder of acclaimed author sir salman rushdie, who's now on a ventilator, after being stabbed on stage in new york. his agent says the 75—year—old can't speak, is likely to lose an eye, has a damaged liver, and the nerves in one arm have been

severed in the attack. more extreme heat is expected in the southern half of the uk over the next two days. that, as experts also warn england's drought could last into the next year. now on bbc news, deportation flights from the uk to jamaica are among the most controversial carried out by the home office. adina campbell has been to jamaica to meet some of the people affected. the tropical shores of jamaica. crystal blue waters framed by mountainous skylines. but this isn't the everyday reality for manyjamaicans who face high unemployment rates, dangerous levels of crime and are also swept up in the rising cost of living crisis.

and life is even tougher for those who never had any intention to be here. there are two sides to jamaica. this one, a beautiful tourist hotspot. but then there's the other side. and for those people who've been deported against their will, this is a place they don't want to be. they put them on a plane. they take them to their country. and then they're on the street. i've been shot at, chased with machete. i've been through hell. it's very hard out here injamaica. it's very hard. there is no support. we live up to our obligations, including appropriate human rights law. the disregard or insufficient regard for matters of family ties, the things that bind our society together. he's a sick boy. i live with him.

coronation markets in downtown kingston, the oldest and largest on the island. life here for most ordinary jamaicans isn't easy. and crime is rife with jamaica having the second highest murder rate in the world after el salvador. despite these risks, the jamaican spirit is strong, and people here are resilient. caribbean culture overwhelmingly prevails. but if you're a deportee living injamaica, the stigma is real. cast aside with little chance of being able to independently survive. as we explore this island, we see with our own eyes what it's really like to live in a poor, developing country.

and for deportees, it's even more challenging here. this is saint elizabeth parish, and we've come here to meet a man whose stepson was recently deported. he was on the flights back in may, earlier this year. he's too unwell to speak to us, but his stepfather has agreed to meet me. erol�*s 38—year—old stepson, eric, was born injamaica, but left at the age of ten to live in the uk. he was popular at school, excelling in art, technology and football. but when his stepson was in his early teens, he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and continues to be extremely vulnerable. he went to school in england. yeah, he went to school in england. he grew up.

everything that's about him is in england. he don't know. he haven't got friends. he haven't got nothing here. i took him to the doctor two days, three days later because i was worried about medication thing. but out here, i don't, i don't even, he probably know, i've got an idea what he is and i don't. he said, oh, man, he need help. what's it like seeing your stepson in this way? hard, hard. very hard. but he's sick. he's a sick boy. i live with him and... cries: in london, eric's family are now taking legal action to try and get him back to the uk.

it's really hard to focus on the job that i do when i have to think about him out injamaica, have his mental health and he's only there with his stepfather in a strange country that he left when he was ten years old. when he came here, he was ok until about 12—13. they said that he had some mental problems. from there, he would keep going to the doctors and get his medication. he had social workers that work with him. and how serious are his mental health problems? i think it's a bit serious because he's schizophrenic, he's psychosis and all these mental problems that he has going on. what was he like growing up? always around me. even when he was living by himself, he visit us almost every day. he was very loving when i used to go to school for his school report. they always have said good things about him, very good at football.

his manager used to call him the gazelle. you want him home? yes, iwant him home. you believe it doesn't deserve to be, he doesn't deserve to be deported. and he doesn't deserve to be there. he's not a murderer. he's not a rapist. he'sjust a child with a mental health problem that need help and support. and the help and support that they get, they give him just to deport him. but it's erik's elderly stepfather who's now shouldering all of the responsibility injamaica. for the last three months, he's been his full—time carer. a stark difference to the supported living and community mental health support he had in london. none of erik's family were warned about him being deported. out of the blue.

mrs brown. brown, i've got eric on live in kingston. we are in the immigration or something like that. and i've got eric in kingston. "how did he get here?" erol�*s stepson was deported for having 28 criminal convictions for 55 offenses ranging from theft, drugs and possessing an offensive weapon. he attempted to take his own life shortly before he was deported. his family say his vulnerabilities have been disregarded by the home office and they also claim he'd been drugged on the flight over. you don't just take you don'tjust take a person and stick a monoplane all the way from england. i don't know because he can't explain to me how on gods earth he got here. i have asked many times and i think, nothing, i know he was out of it. how would somebody

get him on a plane? you say that he's tall. he is not my size. he is taller than i am, well built and all. you could not get him there if he don't want to go. it is not going to be easy for you. to go. it is not going to be easy foryou. it to go. it is not going to be easy for you. it will take three or four of you. he would have to be sedated or knocked out. they would know where he was. hejust or knocked out. they would know where he was. he just sat there. he didn't have a clue who i was. so you have to be sedated to get there. we asked to speak to someone from the home office, but our request was declined. in a statement, the home office says passengers are never sedated and it's wrong to suggest otherwise. it also says this government puts the rights of the british public before those of dangerous criminals, particularly for an individual convicted of 55 offences.

erik's case was also raised in british parliament on the day he and others were deported in may earlier this year. deporting extremely vulnerable people where it could lead to their harm or even their death is fundamentally wrong. my constituent's brother has been diagnosed with a severe mental disorder by a consultant psychiatrist. he is in a mental health crisis. he's attempted suicide. is the minister ok to ignore the human rights of extremely vulnerable people in these circumstances? well, i'd again remind her that we live up to our obligations as is entirely right and proper, including appropriate human rights law, but also paying due regard to the law that was passed in 2007, the uk borders act. i can say to her that on the specific issue of vulnerabilities that health and wellbeing is taken into consideration, proper risk assessments are conducted

for all those in scope of removal. it is right that we work through individual circumstances appropriately and she can utter that that isn't true, but that is a fact. erik's family in london are continuing to work with their local politician to get him back to the uk. janet daby, mp for lewisham east, says she intervened after feeling so strongly about this case in his younger days he'd been groomed. so we've got somebodyl who is probably in a very disadvantaged situation— being groomed and coerced into get involved in criminal activity, low level criminal activity, l and then they're now being demonised and sent off to another country. - he was sedated, which probably meant that means that he was restrained. - if he's got no recollection - of where he is and why he's there, that tells us a lot about his mental health condition. i that means he is severely unwell and what it feels like to me, - is if the government has totally

ignored the fact to do - with his mental health, to do with his crisis, i to do with his ability- to cope with everyday life. and it's almost as if they've just thrown all of that sense - of responsibility away and passed that onto jamaica. _ they've got discretion, - but they're using their discretion in the most harmful ways. and i see this as a government acting in a harmful way, - which is against human rights. immigration lawyers working on erik's case say his detention and removal were both unlawful. since we were instructed by erik, we were made aware that he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. we also, whilst he was still in detention as part of his bail application, instructed medicaljustice to do a report to comment on his fitness for detention and any potential fitness to fly, which they confirmed that due to his schizophrenia and how serious it was, he wasn't fit for detention and definitely not fit to fly. erik's human rights have been breached.

in order to survive injamaica, finding work is crucial, but the stigma of being a deportee means these people often try to disappear out of shame and fear for their safety. they're also seen as a low priority, heavily relying on family to get by. but without work or the help of relatives, life injamaica can be dangerous with no go areas in places like kingston. violent gang crime and high murder rates are a bleak reality. as we found out on the day we arrived. three people had been killed in a deadly shooting in neighbouring spanish town. in downtown kingston, we meet taffy, convicted as part of a drugs operation in the uk he served his jail sentence but was deported back to jamaica once released from prison.

and these are his friends, also uk deportees with similar criminal convictions. they all say they're barely surviving here. i've been shot at. chased with machete. i've been through hell. i've been robbed. a lot of crazy stuff happened. i'm surprised i'm still alive. i'm not safe- _ i'm surprised i'm still alive. i'm not safe. the _ i'm surprised i'm still alive. i'm not safe. the killing could still going — not safe. the killing could still going i— not safe. the killing could still going. i could reach with a rifle because — going. i could reach with a rifle because it _ going. i could reach with a rifle because it is there, here, everywhere and there are people in jamaica _ everywhere and there are people in jamaica now who will recruit you 'ust jamaica now who will recruit you just like — jamaica now who will recruit you just like that because they see you are down_ just like that because they see you are down and out. taffy says he doesn't understand why he was sent back to jamaica after going through a thorough rehabilitation process in jail. all i'm saying is that the whole process of paying your dues is to be rehabilitated. when you look and see

that, i've learned a lot. i didn't even had a play table tennis and i was the best inside. i'm not bragging us is nothing to brag about but i'm just showing how you turn a negative into a positive. so to me, i was being rehabilitated. i started thinking different, started even approaching situation is different just by doing courses and i gave the rehabilitation of thumbs up for that. but why is it we have to pay the same thing twice? we get charged double time. the uk home office says it provides reintegration funding for deportees such as transport on arrival, short term accommodation and training to help find work. but resettling back into normal life injamaica is worlds apart from the support given in the uk. here we find there is little chance of being offered employment, training, education courses and other community provision.

if you're a deportee. this kind of hardship isn'tjust felt in big cities like kingston. as we explore other parts of the island, we hear similar stories in more remote communities where access to running water, electricity and proper sanitation aren't always available. life couldn't be more different for some of those people who've ended up being deported here. st thomas is a parish about three hours drive away from the capital kingston. it's largely rural and work can be hard to come by, especially for those who are hoping to rebuild their lives. dwayne williams lives here in his grandmother's house. he was deported from the uk five years ago after serving a life sentence for murder.

now 39, he spent most of his adult life in prison and has missed seeing his teenage son grow up. how long did you spend in prison? i was convicted at 18 for the murder and i spent 15 years inside of prison. a man lost his life. you were convicted of murder. many people would say everything that's happened you absolutely deserved. yeah. 100%. that that can't be denied. i knew right from wrong from a very early age when i was in primary school. i think i was identified as obviously struggling for reading and writing for the age group that i was. i obviously lack of confidence. i didn't speak so well. i wasn't in a former gang but we had like—minded peers like me so

whatever they were do i would do whatever they were do i would do whatever i would if they would do. that's the way it kind of escalated into full—fledged day robberies. i never used to do a lot of thinking regarding the consequences. it's very hard. injamaica it's very hard, there is no support. for me, in my individual, there is no, well, they will can put you into these people engage at other people to lead you into an apprenticeship and get work or you feel that you have a benefit which will allow you to set “p benefit which will allow you to set up something. there is nothing. there were in a higher chance of going into society into crime than succeeding.

moments like this are precious for dwayne and his family. his wife and youngest son have come to visit from england. they're determined to continue being a family despite being thousands of miles apart. do you think it's fair what's happened? i don't know if i'd say it fair, because obviously someone someone lost lost their life, you know? ijust wish that dwayne had got the support that he he needed, you know, from the get go. you know, there wasn't any support for, you know, like mental health or anything like that. you know, you get here and it's almost like you've been blindsided. you've been left. most deportees end up arriving in kingston before discovering what lies ahead. edina, lovely to meet you. senior government ministers in the jamaican government say they're increasingly concerned about these deportations and the effect it has on families.

it is such a sore point. and for the deportation, - in particular, those who have left jamaica have little or no time injamaica, who have been. -- little — — little or —— little or no tie injamaica... socialised in the british . culture or any place else. and just the way it is been done, it's almost tantamount _ to the old method of- punishment of transportation. it's such a sore point for me. it's really a sore point for me. and on top of it, the disregard or insufficient regard - for matters of family ties, the things that bind - our society together. “ as —— as together... let it be known very clearly that i do take serious issue with how the deportation matter has been handled. - and i think it is one of the issues that we will have to continue - to have dialogue around. in some of the british communities affected

by deportation flights to jamaica, there have been high profile protests with only a fraction of people ending up being removed from the uk due to last minute legal challenges. and there's been rising anger over family connections to the windrush generation for years after the british government —— four years after... apologised for immigration mistakes and the treatment of these caribbean migrants in the uk. 10ajamaican nationals have been deported from the uk since 2019, but jamaica represents just 1% of the british government's overall enforced returns, according to latest home office figures. the average cost of chartering a deportation flight sometimes used by the government is £200,000. erik's lawyers say they were challenging his deportation but weren't sent key paperwork from the home office, which must be served legally within three days of someone's departure.

and you believe that this is a case of unlawful removal and detention? if the removal directions were served on to erik directly at this point, his mental health would have been in a state of such crisis that he would not have understood what this paperwork was or even begin to think. "i'll alert my lawyers to this." so i think the home office took advantage of his mental health in this case by serving him the paperwork and not us. but the home office says foreign criminals and their legal representatives are served their removal directions in advance of flying, and all claims are fully considered and determined before deportation. this is what's happened to george stevens, who we met in kingston. deported from the uk in 2013 for a drugs offence. his first custodial conviction. he's been absent for most of his youngest daughter's life and now lives with his mum two hours

away from here because he says his life would be in danger in kingston. why did you choose to not live in kingston when you were deported back here? �* ., ., ., ., , here? before i went to england i was livin: in here? before i went to england i was living in kingston _ here? before i went to england i was living in kingston and _ here? before i went to england i was living in kingston and i _ here? before i went to england i was living in kingston and i was _ here? before i went to england i was living in kingston and i was living - living in kingston and i was living in a ghetto in west kingston. there was loads of guns and stuff like that. ., , , ., was loads of guns and stuff like that. ., , , . ., was loads of guns and stuff like that. ., , , ., ., that. how is it being away from your dau~hter that. how is it being away from your daughter all— that. how is it being away from your daughter all these _ that. how is it being away from your daughter all these years? _ that. how is it being away from your daughter all these years? when - that. how is it being away from your daughter all these years? when it . daughter all these years? when it was the first _ daughter all these years? when it was the first time _ daughter all these years? when it was the first time for _ daughter all these years? when it was the first time for her- daughter all these years? when it was the first time for her to - daughter all these years? when it was the first time for her to go i daughter all these years? when it was the first time for her to go to | was the first time for her to go to primary school that was the worst part of it for me because when she had to come and visit me in the prisons, sometimes they didn't want to because she was young. inside the immigration court they did in n. i would have a centre birthday cards when i was inside and when a centre of the card and she told me that she didn't get it, it made me, you understand, i was really upset.

opposition mps injamaica are also fully aware of the risks these people face when they get here. you can't say to a person that a society has created that one. yeah, you did the time. you're rehabilitated. but guess what? after this and your service of time, we're going to send you back to a country you have no allegiance to, you haven't been to in decades. you have no family there. you have no ties there. and it is going to be the responsibility of that country to reintegrate you, and it will be your responsibility to reintegrate yourself. should there be a ban? i don't have the ability to say that there should be an outright ban on the flights. what i would say to people is that we need a more common approach that looks at respecting people's humanity in this situation. i then asked about erik's case. by no means should you even put someone on a plane. who has that kind of severe mental trauma.

so i'm a little shocked that that could have happened. all erikk�*s family can do is wait. we're doing everything possible to get him back here in this country where he belongs. he's been here since ten years old. this is all he knows. i miss him because he's always at home. "mum, can i have this? "mum, can i have that?" so i miss him a lot. i hope that i do get him back and i'm praying to get him back. how worried are you about his safety? very worried because jamaica now, you know, we all know that jamaica now has become very violent. there's guns everywhere. there's killing every day. it's not like here somebody might if he said, i do something, someone might overlook it. injamaica in jamaica it's all injamaica it's all machete and guns. there is no chance of him

surviving injamaica. it's something i think about and breaks my heart. i spend a lot of time thinking about it. i'm worried he might get killed. it shouldn't happen to know one. not the way— it shouldn't happen to know one. not the way it— it shouldn't happen to know one. not the way it happened to him because he end _ the way it happened to him because he end up— the way it happened to him because he end up somewhere and you don't know— he end up somewhere and you don't know how— he end up somewhere and you don't know how he got here. how can that be? if— know how he got here. how can that be? . ., , ., , ._ be? if he continues to stay here, what does _ be? if he continues to stay here, what does his _ be? if he continues to stay here, what does his future _ be? if he continues to stay here, what does his future look - be? if he continues to stay here, what does his future look like? l be? if he continues to stay here, | what does his future look like? no future at all. i can see nothing. he can't _ future at all. i can see nothing. he can't survive — future at all. i can see nothing. he can't survive on his own. right now, if the _ can't survive on his own. right now, if the worst— can't survive on his own. right now, if the worst comes to the worst and he is _ if the worst comes to the worst and he is doing — if the worst comes to the worst and he is doing unsociable things that you don't— he is doing unsociable things that you don't expect, what am i going to do with— you don't expect, what am i going to do with him? — you don't expect, what am i going to do with him? what am i going to do? i do with him? what am i going to do? i don't _ do with him? what am i going to do? i don't know— do with him? what am i going to do? i don't know what is going on with him _ i don't know what is going on with him the — i don't know what is going on with him. the doctor is the only person

who can _ him. the doctor is the only person who can say— him. the doctor is the only person who can say certain things will happen— who can say certain things will happen or— who can say certain things will happen or that will happen or that might— happen or that will happen or that might happen. but i do? —— what do i do. might happen. but i do? —— what do i do i_ might happen. but i do? —— what do i do i don't— might happen. but i do? —— what do i do. i don't know, i don't know. do. idon't know, i don't know. truly— do. i don't know, i don't know. truly don't _ do. i don't know, i don't know. truly don't. truly don't. hello. it is hot and it is dry. cooler weather is forecast to spread to all parts of the uk through the early part of next week. rain, however, will be slightly harder to pin down. the extreme heat warning remains in place until the end of sunday

and much of england and stretches across into mid wales. faultless blue skies and sunshine beating down keeping the temperatures rising day on day. some thicker cloud over night returning to eastern scotland, the north—east of england, some mist and murk along the coast. some drizzly rain for northern scotland and then by the end of the night, some showers are starting to push into northern ireland and the south—west of england. and it's through sunday that we are anticipating the shower becoming increasingly lively. thundery for northern ireland and northern and western scotland. and with the rain arriving, we start to see things becoming cooler here. some isolated showers possible further west but very little in the way of significant rainfall for england and wales on sunday. it's monday that we start see wetter conditions coming in here.

this is bbc news. i'm luxmy gopal and these are the latest headlines... a man has been arrested for the attempted murder and assault of acclaimed author, sir salman rushdie, who's now on a ventilator, after being stabbed on stage in new york. his agent says the 75—year—old can't speak, is likely to lose an eye, has a damaged liver, and the nerves in one arm have been severed in the attack. more extreme heat is expected in the southern half of the uk over the next two days. that, as experts also warn england's drought could last into the next year. the heatwave continues hitting europe — with some areas facing devastating wildfires and others suffering the economic impact of the droughts. travel disruption after thousands of train drivers from nine rail companies go on strike across the uk today. it's the latest walk—out in a row over pay and conditions.