Turkish Killer's Asylum Bid Blocks Deportation

0:00On March 23rd, a man from Turkey, known only as KD, stabbed his 23-year-old wife to death in London back in 2005. He entered the UK illegally four years earlier and got a life sentence, but was released on license in 2018. Now, the government wants to deport him, but his assignment claim is blocking it. KD argues that sending him home would put his life in danger from a family blood feud over the killing, plus political persecution tied to Kurdish. Groups. His earlier asylum bids got shot down his fraudulent, including one right after he arrived. Judges have called the situation uncomfortable, noting it's odd for a dangerous foreign criminal to use his own crime as a shield for human rights. Protection. Still, the home office says he poses a risk to the public here. Last year, he won a first round for humanitarian protection against deportation, but the high court overturned that recently due to legal errors. They ruled his revenge fears weren't fully checked, so the case heads back to immigration courts.

1:01Meanwhile, the home office appealed further, calling the original win perverse, but the process drags on, leaving his future in Britain up in the air. For now.