Sir Lenny Henry describes racist abuse suffered by his mother

Sir Lenny Henry has described the racist abuse his mother suffered when she arrived in the UK from Jamaica.

The British comedian said she had been followed down the street and asked where her tail had gone.

Speaking at a screening of his new TV series, 'Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle', Sir Lenny urged descendants of the Windrush generation to ensure their parents' and grandparents' stories were not forgotten.

Sir Lenny, who was born in Dudley in August 1958, labelled those who travelled on the HMT Empire Windrush "heroes", hailing them for tolerating the abuse they suffered on arrival.

He added: "It's heroic, it's a heroic story, when you talk about coming to this story and experience."

Sir Lenny appears in the series of 15-minute monologues, which tell the story of a Caribbean family from their arrival in the UK in the 1940s to the present day.