Iraqi Kurd Aso Mohammed Ibrahim left a little girl to die under the wheels of a car, he isn’t getting deported, Human Rights needs revamped

Dear All

An asylum-seeker who left a girl dying under the wheels of his car when he fled the scene can stay in the UK.

Yes, two immigration judges have issued this ruling.

And they did so using Article 8 of the Human Rights Act 1998.Article 8 gives a person the right to a family life.

The Human Rights Act comes in for a lot of abuse because of the people who interrupt what the act means.

And on occasion they get it spectacularly wrong which the press then seize on.

Regardless of the nationality what kind of person abandons a seriously injured child to their fate?

Iraqi Kurd Aso Mohammed Ibrahim, a complete scumbag.

He was only jailed for four months after knocking down Amy Houston in Blackburn in 2003.

Four months isn’t justice by any means.

Paul Houston, father of Amy said:

"The Human Rights Act is for everybody, not just asylum-seekers and terrorists”.

And that is the problem, the State should have stepped in an exercised its veto.

As much as human rights concern the rights of the individual, it also mentions the rights of the State.

Let us look at Article 8 of the European Convention.

ARTICLE 8

1/ Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.

2/There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.

We lock people up in this country when they commit serious crimes, prisoners cannot invoke Article 8 and the State takes away this right because of conviction.

During internment a prisoner is denied the right to a family life.

Aso Mohammed Ibrahim should be deported but he has used the fact that he met a British woman and they had two children, Harry, four, and Zara, three to circumvent the system in his favour.

He effectively uses the human rights of his wife and children to strengthen his case to stay.

This is wrong: as much as Paul Houston cannot use his human rights to have Ibrahim deported neither should Ibrahim’s children be considered as mechanism for him to stay.

I blogged on this concept before after Tam Baillie, Scottish Children’s Commissioner mooted that Judges should take into account whether a person had children before considering sentence.

Baillie was using a ruling made by South Africa Judge Abie Sachs who didn’t jail a woman because she had children.

http://glasgowunihumanrights.blogspot.com/2010/03/childrens-czar-tam-baillies-move-to.html

Sachs wasn’t going on rule of law rather than subjective opinion; he was making it up as he was going along.

Wrongly in my opinion!

At the time I said;

‘If you break the law then you cannot use the human rights of others in order to circumvent justice. That isn’t then a human right, as “rights” are specific to the individual in the Court’.

Paul Houston is right to campaign to get Ibrahim deported but as good as the Human Rights Act is, the problem is the wrong people sit making judgments using it.

Mr Houston said:

"What are the judges saying here? They are saying it doesn't matter what you do when you come here, who you kill, what laws you break, as long as you have a child here you can stay?"

Adding:

"You work hard, play by the rules, pay your taxes and this is how you get treated. What does that say about politicians, our leaders and the legal system? It's a joke."

"The Human Rights Act is for everybody, not just asylum-seekers and terrorists”.

"How can he say he's deprived of his right to a family life? The only person deprived of a family life is me. Amy was my only family."

"They are obsessed with the rights of others from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq. Where are my human rights?"

Paul Houston ‘rights’ don’t exist because when the Convention on Human Rights was drawn up it wasn’t as extensive as it should have been.

His ‘rights’ were passed to the State, who using Article 8.2 should have been able to deport Iraqi Kurd Aso Mohammed Ibrahim back to Iraq.

Paul Houston and his family have been failed by society because Britain is a corrupt society.

Just as I have blogged on continually, these perverse decisions that support my claim that the political and social elite don't represent ordinary working class people.

Yours sincerely

George Laird

The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University