Child migrant group seek £400mn

Now aged 86, Harold Vennell seeks £400mn from Barnardo’s as compensation for being shipped out to Canada in 1932, as one of the 30,000 children in the Child Migrant Scheme, against his will and that of his destitute mother who had placed him in care. When he arrived he claims he was abused, and treated as a slave, by the farming family in which he was placed.