UK allows immigrant killer to remain

The Home Office has advised that an immigrant from Iraq who murdered two doctors has won his right to remain in the UK.

Paranoid schizophrenic, 41-year-old Laith Alani, was afforded the right to stay in Britain following a ruling by the judge in the case that if sent back to his homeland he would represent a danger to the Iraqi public.

Media reports, which have been giving widespread coverage to the case, confirm that an enforced deportation of Alani would be in breach of his human rights after an immigration tribunal deemed his removal would not be ethical.

The troubled Iraqi killed cosmetic surgeons Kenneth Paston and Michael Masser by stabbing them both to death at the West Yorkshire Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield in 1990. Over the past 19 years Alani has spent almost all of his time in a psychiatric hospital after he claimed that Allah had commanded him to slaughter the two NHS consultants. Alani made an appeal to the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT) headed by senior immigration judge Lance Waumsley who made the decision to allow him to stay in Britain. One reason given for the decision was that the medicine used for treating Alani’s disorder would not likely be available inside Iraq. He has been on an NHS prescription for clozapine for treating his schizophrenia for the past decade after being advised it was the only recommended treatment.

Phil Woolas, the Immigration Minister, said that the UK Border Agency was vigorously opposed to any deportation appeal but acknowledged that the department was bound to honour the decision of court judges. The decision was met with understandable anger from Paton’s widow who claimed that Alani remained a danger inside the UK.