Dexter Bristol (1960–31 March 2018) was a Grenadian citizen and member of the Windrush generation who emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1968 at the age of eight to join his mother Sentine Bristol, a Grenadian British subject passport holder who was working in the NHS as a nurse.
[2] Jeremy Corbyn, the Leader of the Opposition, said that "[Bristol's mother] argued, powerfully and convincingly, that this is racism.
"[5] Grenadian Prime Minister Keith Mitchell said, regarding Bristol's death, that "no amount of compensation can deal with pain".
[6] The poet Benjamin Zephaniah was quoted as saying “I’d like to see heads roll, but how do you compensate somebody like the mother of Dexter Bristol?”[7] On 28 August 2018 an inquest at St Pancras Coroner's Court, concluded that Bristol had died of natural causes, namely "acute cardiac arrhythmia", though the coroner acknowledged that stress had been a factor in his death.
Bristol had not accessed NHS healthcare since August 2016, believing himself to be ineligible because of his immigration status.