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The last one, in particular, was brutal. Chris is not clear if the family were being specifically targeted - but for his mother he says it proved too much and she left with her two young children first to Botswana, then the UK - where her architect husband later joined her in He is of mixed heritage: his mother is half Indian and his father grew up as an orphan in Zimbabwe.
Chris speaks English but neither of Zimbabwe's two main local languages, Shona or Ndebele. Any relatives the family left behind have long since gone, during what have been a turbulent two decades in Zimbabwe. Amid an economic meltdown under the rule of late President Robert Mugabe and political oppression, it is estimated more than three million people fled. Times are still difficult. Last week a cross-party group of 75 British MPs wrote to Home Secretary Priti Patel urging her to stop the deportation of 50 Zimbabweans because of the country's "deteriorating" political and human rights situation.
Ms Patel replied to say that she was required by law to send back foreign offenders when it was safe to do so: "My key objective is to protect the public.
In a statement to the BBC, the Home Office, speaking about Chris's case, said: "We only ever return those who we and, where applicable, the courts are satisfied do not need our protection and have no legal basis to remain in the UK.
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