AN ASYLUM seeker involved in a death crash is finally being deported - prompting the victim’s father to break down in tears.

UK Border Agency officials today swooped on the home of Aso Mohammed Ibrahim in Merchants Landing, Audley, Blackburn.

The 30-year-old was last night being detained ahead of deportation ‘at the earliest possibility’.

Five years ago Ibrahim’s car struck Amy Houston in Blackburn. Amy had run out into the road and Ibrahim ran off, leaving her trapped under his car.

It later emerged that Ibrahim was disqualified from driving and had exhausted all his appeals to stay in the country during his two-and-a-half years in England.

But five years on, we last week highlighted that Ibrahim was still living in Blackburn, despite Government pledges to deport him.

Amy’s dad Paul, of Argyle Street, Darwen, broke down in tears when the Lancashire Telegraph broke the news of moves to deport Ibrahim.

He said: “This is absolutely fantastic, the best news.

“I’m so emotional.

“There have been so many false starts, but at long last this might mean it can come to an end and I can move on a bit.

“But I don’t want to build my hopes up too much. I won’t believe it until he’s out of the country.”

After Amy’s death, Ibrahim was prosecuted for driving while disqualified and without insurance and failing to stop after an accident.

He was jailed for four months.

The following year he was again caught driving while disqualified.

In the past two years, Ibrahim has got married to a Lancashire woman and had two children.

But the Home Office blocked his application for citizenship because he was ineligible as a failed asylum seeker.

Ibrahim claimed he could not go back to Iraq because it was too dangerous.

Gill Mortlock, regional director of the UK Border Agency, in the North West said: "Mr Ibrahim was detained at his home address by officers from our Liverpool enforcement team yesterday morning and is now in detention.

"We are working to remove him at the earliest opportunity."