A FAILED asylum seeker who ran away leaving a young girl dying under the wheels of his car has appeared in court again for driving while disqualified.

Today the father of 12-year-old Amy Houston, above, spoke of his disgust at the lenient sentenced handed out to Aso Mohammed Ibrahim and demanded that he be deported from the country.

Ibrahim, a 28-year-old Iraqi, of Whalley Banks, Blackburn, has never held a UK driving licence.

He appeared before magistrates over two years ago charged with driving while banned, after the accident in which Amy died in Newfield Drive, Blackburn.

The case prompted outrage after he was jailed for four months for driving while disqualified and failing to stop after an accident.

Campaigners called for an Amy's Law, to make causing death while disqualified from driving to be made a recognised offence with stiffer penalties.

Hyndburn MP Greg Pope and Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans backed the campaign and a Bill is on its third reading in Parliament.

Yesterday Blackburn magistrates heard Ibrahim had again been caught driving while banned, on July 11.

The court was told he got behind the wheel of a BMW because he had been to the area where Amy had died and was scared of reprisals.

Ibrahim admitted driving while disqualified and without insurance.

He was made subject to community supervision for two years, banned from driving for three years and made subject to a 7pm to 7am curfew for four months.

Magistrates chairman Ian Ainsworth said if Ibrahim was caught driving again he would certainly go to prison.

He added: "If our hands had not been tied by the decision of a previous bench we may well have sent you into custody today."

Pat Bramley, prosecuting, said Ibrahim was stopped in Audley Range at 11.30pm and a check on the Police National Computer revealed he was banned.

The ban was imposed in December 2003 when Ibrahim was jailed for the accident which led to Amy's death.

Clare Knight, defending, said Ibrahim's ex-girlfriend had given birth to their son and he had been visiting the child in the Fishmoor area.

"Because of what happened in 2003 he still fears violence and hostility," said Miss Knight.

"He didn't want to walk into the area and foolishly borrowed his cousin's car."

She said he is living with his cousin and as a failed asylum seeker is unable to work or claim benefits.

But Amy's father Paul Houston hit back: "If he is scared to walk the streets, why doesn't he take a taxi when he knows he is disqualified from driving?

"The courts are limp. They are powerless. People like Ibrahim make a mockery of our legal system."

Mr Houston, who lived in Accrington at the time of his daughter's death but now lives in Argyle Street, Darwen, added: "You can't deport him because of his human rights.

"But he stopped being a human being when he left my daughter in the street.

"He should be removed from the country. He has ripped my world apart."

During his court appearance in 2004, magistrates were told that Ibrahim had exhausted all appeal options during his two-and-a-half years in the UK but had not been returned to his home country because of the volatile situation there.

A Home Office spokesman said they were unable to comment on individual cases.