Report: 7/7 survivor faces deportation

A university lecturer who narrowly avoided death in the July 7, 2005, London bomb attacks is facing deportation from the UK despite being born in a British colony, according to The Sunday Telegraph.

Professor John Tulloch, 70, was sitting opposite a suicide bomber on a Circle line train and only avoided death because of his luggage. He was visited in hospital by the Prince of Wales after the attacks and a picture of his bloodied face was published on the front page of a national newspaper.

Prof Tulloch - who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder - has now reportedly had his British passport confiscated despite being born in pre-independence India and having a British wife and children.

He told the Sunday Telegraph: "I am totally gobsmacked by this. I’ve got a huge attachment to Britain. My family has served Britain for three generations. I’ve been banging my head against a wall trying to get this sorted out, but I’ve never before encountered so much frustration. It’s like Kafka.”