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A Windrush child has refused a £100,000 Home Office compensation offer because he said it does not take into account the fact that he could not get a mortgage to buy his own home.

Lorenzo Hoyte, 64, has been offered the sum as compensation for 'impact on life' but said his claim for 'financial loss' has been turned down despite the fact he was refused a mortgage in 2005.

Lorenzo could not get a mortgage to buy the Wakefield District Housing owned house he lives in under the right to buy scheme because he did not have a British passport.

Lorenzo said the house is now worth up to £160,000 and he has been denied the right to pay a mortgage and eventually own it.

Lorenzo Hoyte outside his home in Wakefield.

Photo: Steve Riding — Lorenzo Hoyte outside his home in Wakefield. Photo: Steve Riding

He said: "I have paid more in rent than what they have offered me."

Lorenzo, of Wrenthorpe, Wakefield, was born in Barbados and came to Leeds as a 10-year old and was brought up in the Beeston area of the city.

He has worked as a welder all his life but had to work on temporary contracts because he didn't have a passport.

The grandad-of-six could not attend his mother or another brother’s funerals abroad because he was previously not classed as a British citizen.

Windrush child refuses Home Office £100,000 compensation offer and vows to fight on