“Osime has been affected mentally, physically and emotionally by this traumatic experience. I just want him to relax now. I got him his Playstation and I am cooking him his favourite meal, dumplings and ackee.
He is really trying to adjust and reorientate himself. He was in a cruel environment in prison for three years."
“I want to see a public inquiry for all cases like Osime’s – children and young people who have been in care and end up in the criminal justice system.” Joan Martin.
Clare Hayes and Sarah Ricca, of Deighton Pierce Glynn said: “It would seem from information received to date that the threat to deport Osime is the culmination of a long history of discriminatory treatment, which is all too familiar for children with autism
and for black children especially.
“Osime’s case shines a light on institutional racism in many of its forms, and particularly concerning in Osime’s case, the intersection of racism with the discriminatory treatment of disabled, neuro-divergent people and people with autism