'Asylum’ killer wins fight

A FAILED asylum seeker who left a 12-year-old girl dying under the wheels of his car after a hit-and-run accident has sparked fury by walking free from a deportation centre while he fights being kicked out of the country.

TRAGIC Amy was killed in a car crash TRAGIC: Amy was killed in a car crash

Iraqi Kurd Aso Mohammed ­Ibrahim, 30, was due to be ­deported after applications for asylum were kicked out.

Now he has won a court appeal against him being detained while his case is processed.

­Ibrahim, who knocked down and killed Amy Houston while ­already on bail for driving while disqualified, was jailed for four months for driving while banned and failing to stop after the ­accident in November 2003 in Blackburn, Lancashire. He had never held a driving ­licence and had two previous driving bans.

Amy’s family have fought for his deportation and ­campaigned for an Amy’s Law that would introduce stiffer penalties for causing death while ­banned from driving.

Her father Paul Houston, 39, ­reacted with disgust to this latest court decision. He said: “I’m very disappointed. It’s very frustrating. Why should he walk free after what he has done? He’s just laughing at the justice system. It’s so wrong. Where’s the justice for my Amy?

“The immigration ­officials have an impossible job when judges knock them back.

“The politicians talk big but I see no action. This man has used up so many resources. How many appeals does he get?” Engineer Paul, from Darwen, who had shed tears of relief in October when ­Ibrahim was taken into the ­custody of the UK Border Agency, said: “This just makes me more determined.

“If I didn’t fight, then another person would find themselves in this position and I don’t want ­anybody else’s kid to get killed. It’s my duty as a father to see this through to the end.”

A spokeswoman for the UK ­Border Agency said: “We are ­extre­mely disappointed at the court’s decision. We vigorously ­opposed bail for this man. This is by no means an acceptance of his right to stay in the country.”

Since Amy’s death, Ibrahim has married a British woman and ­fathered two children in ­Blackburn. He claims it is too unsafe for him to return to Iraq.

His deportation had been ­ordered in November, 2002.

Blackburn MP and Secretary of State for Justice, Jack Straw, said he would be taking up the issue of Ibrahim’s release from custody. He said: “I will speak to the family and also with the Home Secretary.”

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