Osime Brown has lived in Britain since he was four. Jailed for crimes that he denies, he was then told he would be sent back to Jamaica. His mother vowed it would never happen
In 2013, Joan Martin’s heart stopped. She was having major surgery due to a life-threatening aneurysm. After hours in the operating theatre, and seven and a half units of blood, doctors managed to save her life. She believes that she was meant to survive because she had important work to do: to protect and advocate for her son, Osime Brown, 23, who is autistic and has the learning age of a child of six or seven.
After she recovered, Martin, 55, continued to pour all her energy into looking after him in the family home in Dudley, West Midlands, as she had always done. “I’m a Christian, I have faith and I’m a fighter,” says Martin. But she had no idea of the scale of the battles that lay ahead.
