Asylum Seeker Allowed to Remain in UK Despite Hit and Run

Posted on December 24, 2009 in Legal UK US
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Asylum Seeker Allowed to Remain in UK Despite Hit and Run

Asylum Seeker Allowed to Remain in UK Despite Hit and Run

Apparently, Aso Mohammed, who is a 32-year-old failed Ibrahim asylum seeker, has been able to win the right to remain in the country despite hitting a 12-year-old girl in the street and leaving her to die. The right to remain in the UK has, not only outraged the young girl's family, but it has stunned all of the officials at the UK Border Agency.

Aso, Mohammed was banned from driving and had run out of appeals against his deportation when he fled the scene of the accident where he hit 12-year-old Amy Houston with his black Rover car. The Iraqi Kurd, who has actually since committed even further driving offenses, was told by a judge in Manchester that he could stay in the UK.

The judge had apparently allowed the man to stay because, since the six year tragedy, the asylum seeker had already put down roots in the UK. This did include marring a British woman and having two daughters of his own.

The family's constituency MP, Jack Straw, was apparently so alarmed by the court's choice that he said that he intends to press Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, for an urgent review of the matter. Paul Houston, the dead girl's father, said that his daughter would be alive today if Aso Mohammed, a banned driver, had not gotten into a car that day. He is not prepared to live by UK laws, and he does not deserve the right to stay there. This is not a question of race anymore, this is a question of right and wrong.

Reports say that Amy had been on her way to the record shop to buy a new CD from her favorite group. The young girl was trapped under the vehicle's wheel and had to be freed by fireman. She was then rushed to a hospital where she later died. During the rescue, Mohammed became frighten and fled the scene.

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