A FATHER of three who faces imminent deportation to Jamaica has told the Star he “can't think of any pain worse” than the Home Office “ripping my family apart.”

Junior Kerr, 40, who has lived in Britain since 2001, is one of 50 people scheduled for forced removal on a charter flight on Tuesday.

He was detained on January 28 by immigration officials while signing on with the Home Office in Croydon with his two youngest children, aged seven and nine.

Mr Kerr’s long-term partner, who preferred not to be named, told the Star that her kids have been traumatised by the incident, barely speaking, sleeping or eating.

The Home Office is deporting Mr Kerr over a conviction for GBH, for which he has served three-and-half years of a seven year sentence.

He moved to Britain to join family members before meeting his partner a few months later. They live together with their eldest son, 13 and two younger children.

Speaking from Brook House detention centre, Mr Kerr told the Star that he wanted to sit down with the Home Office and urge them to “give me a second chance.”

“You’re messing up my son’s life, and my daughter's life, come on think about what you’re doing to the little children,” he said.

“They are going to school crying out for their dad. Think how they feel, that their dad was there but he’s not coming home no more.”

Mr Kerr accused the Home Office of giving him a “life sentence” by deporting him to Jamaica.

He told the Star: “It has ripped apart my family, I can’t think of any pain that’s worse than this, what they are doing.”

Since his release from prison three years ago, Mr Kerr has not committed another offence and spends most of his time as the primary care-giver to his children.

Mr Kerr’s partner says he calls her every morning at 6am to check that the children are awake and getting ready for school.

“During breakfast he’s on the phone just listening,” she said. “He just wants to know everything that’s going on with his children. That is the reason why I literally love him so much.

“The both of us were raised without one of our parents and we both say to each other, we never want that for our children.”

His partner of 15 years, who suffers from depression, has also been struggling, unable to work or get dressed.

Because she works on a zero-hour contract and receives only statutory sick pay she is worried about paying the rent and bills, as well as the legal fees for her partner’s case.

The Home Office claims that the deportees are “serious criminals” who have no legal right to stay in Britain, despite many individuals having long-term partners and children with British citizenship.