Blackburn death crash asylum seeker wins fight to stay in country
AN ASYLUM seeker who left a 12-year-old Blackburn girl dying under the wheels of his car has won the right to stay in this country.
Aso Mohammed Ibrahim's victory has outraged Amy Houston's father Paul, who had been fighting for the Iraqi national's deportation since his daughter's death in 2003.
And the judge's decision yesterday has also left officials at the UK Border Agency stunned.
They had been trying to send Ibrahim back to Iraq and said they were 'extremely disappointed' to have failed.
Justice Secretary and Blackburn MP Jack Straw said he would take to case to Home Secretary Alan Johnson in a bid to force an appeal.
Ibrahim was yesterday told by a judge in Manchester that he would be allowed to stay in England permanently,
six years and one month after Amy's death.
Mr Houston, of Argyle Street, Darwen, said he was 'raging' that a judge had allowed him to stay.
He said: “They may as well give passports out in lucky bags because that’s all they’re worth.
“I can’t believe the decision the judge has come to. Is he on a different planet?
“I’ve had Greg Pope back me, as well as Janet Anderson and Jack Straw.
"All these MPs and what good does it do?
“I’ve been taken for a mug because I’m a little man, a working class man, and it doesn’t matter to them."
Mr Houston vowed to continue the fight to have Ibrahim deported.
He said: "What a Christmas present for him and what a terrible one for my family.
"Well, I hope he doesn’t celebrate too soon because this is not the end.
"I could sit here and think, 'well, Amy’s dead, she isn’t going to come back', but I won’t.
“I will fight this for the rest of my life until he leaves the country."
Amy ran into the road in Newfield Drive, Highercroft, Blackburn, and was struck by Ibrahim's car.
He ran off, leaving her under the car.
Ibrahim was jailed for four months for driving while disqualified and failing to stop after an accident.
At the time of the crash he had no licence or insurance and was said to have exhausted all means of appeal to stay in this country, but could not be deported because Iraq was unsafe.
In 2006, he appeared before court again for driving while disqualfied.
Fourteen months ago he was taken to a deportation centre and UK Border Agency officials vowed they would try to remove him from the country 'at the earliest possible opportunity'.”
He was later released on bail and launched an appeal against deportation on grounds that he had married and had two children in England.
Mr Straw said he found the judge's decision 'very disappointing'.
He said: “I will be speaking to the Home Secretary to see if there’s any way we can appeal against this decision, and I will also be talking to the family.
"They have been through an awful time.”
Jo Liddy, regional director of the UK Border Agency in the North West, Jo Liddy, added their 'extreme disappointment'.
She said: "We have made it clear that we will prioritise the removal of those foreign nationals who present the most risk of harm to the public."
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It's not a taxi related story...and I'm sorry to be a harbinger of doom, particularly on this fine Christmas Morning (of sorts)....but I was sent details of this story by an equally frustrated acquaintance...and I must say that I feel heartbroken for the innocent family concerned. So... I thought I'd inflict the bad karma onto the TDO forum too.
Sorry everyone...
Some people, through no fault of their own, are unable to either enjoy Christmas...or put the past behind them and worse, the legal system seems to insist on a form of long, drawn out torture of the innocent too. It is both bewildering and ludicrous that anyone can use/abuse the system so much as to be able to remain here,
for several years, particularly with his ongoing history, proving that there is no remorse and no lesson has been learnt (other than how to abuse the system further).
According to the BBC website, Ibrahim apparently "faced deportation but successfully invoked human rights legislation granting him the right to a 'family life' in the UK".
Also, it was allegedly "too dangerous to return to his homeland and he won the right to stay in Britain after a lengthy series of appeals at the Manchester Asylum and Immigration Tribunal".
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What total and utter b****cks!
So...one of my wishes for 2010...that a political party will emerge that will have the guts to take on, possibly the biggest problem the country faces. Not immigration, conventional crime, or banking...or maybe not even war. No... I hope that someone will be brave enough to tackle the bureaucracy that apparently clogs up every walk of life and almost renders common sense obsolete. Oh...and to also round up and shoot the do-gooders, lawyers who defend such scum...and judges who let them off.
Even the taxi trade, to a lesser degree obviously, has been drawn in to the bureaucracy, with enhanced CRB checks that may/may not be open to challenge and training courses that can be as inaccurate as they are pointless (unless you're making money from running one!), but the NHS, Police etc have been contaminated far more severely (although it was a bloody shame that the banks weren't!).
So, whilst it is probably akin to hoping for a lottery win, let's hope for common sense to make a comeback and for people in 2010 to be able to focus on their jobs, instead of completing paperwork in triplicate, or attending courses on "teaching grandma to suck eggs", so to speak. Some hope eh?
I wish Mr Houston and his family all the best, or the best that can be obtained...and the hope of success in their pursuit of this evil parasite.
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