UK: Father of hit and run victim attacks human rights laws that protect killer
8th April 2011
The father of a 12-year-old girl killed by a failed asylum seeker yesterday launched a fierce attack on judges and human rights laws that have allowed him to stay in the UK indefinitely.
Ibrahim, 33, an Iraqi Kurd, was already banned from driving when he hit Amy Houston and left her dying under the wheels of his car in Blackburn, Lancashire, in 2003.
He was jailed for four months over her death, but was allowed to remain in the UK on his release because of human rights after an immigration judge ruled he had established a family life here.
The rejection by judges yesterday to allow the Home Office to appeal that ruling means Ibrahim will be allowed to stay in the UK.
Can’t really blame him. But there’s a lot of that going on these days.