Windrush child in plea to visit ailing elderly father

Lorenzo Hoyte was unable to attend his mother or another brother’s funerals abroad because he was previously not classed as a British citizen and is still does not have a UK passport.

Mr Hoyte, who was born in Barbados, was also unable to travel to the Moscow Olympics in 1980 or the Los Angeles Games in 1984 to see his sister Josyln Hoyte-Smith compete for Great Britain in the women’s 4x400m relay.

‘How the murder of my sister Elsie Frost changed my life’Mr Hoyte, 61, who was brought up in Leeds and now lives Wrenthorpe, said his father Belfield Hoyte, 89, has lived in Toronto in Canada since the late 1980s and he wants to travel to see him before he dies.

He also has a brother Luther and sister Dolores – both aged in their seventies – living in Canada.

Mr Hoyte said he hasn’t seen his father for more than 30 years, adding: “He is a frail old man now .

One in five patients in Wakefield waiting a week to see their GP“I have got a lot of farewells to say and a lot to do but I can’t have the passport to go and do it.

“It is just dragging on and on and no-one has got any answers for me. I want to see all my family in Canada before they die.

“And I want to go to Barbados and see my family there.”

Mr Hoyte has worked as a welder all his life but has had to work on temporary contracts and has been unable to get a mortgage to buy a house.

He has written to Home Secretary Sajid Javid, telling him: “My father’s health is ailing. I would like to see my dad before he passes.”

Next phase of City Fields housing and retail development revealedMr Hoyte, who has five children and six grandchildren, said he is still no closer to getting a UK passport despite applying on numerous occasions over a number of years.

Mr Hoyte’s MP Andrea Jenkyns (Cons/Morley and Outwood), said: It is disappointing and unacceptable to hear that Lorenzo has yet to receive his passport, despite the reassurances of the Home Office.

“I am working with other constituents from the Windrush generation to help them get a passport and I have scheduled a meeting with Lorenzo.

“I have messaged Home Secretary Sajid Javid and he said he is looking personally into Lorenzo’s case.”