An asylum seeker who rowed a ship into the English Channel the place 4 passengers drowned has misplaced his bid to problem his conviction and sentence.
Ibrahima Bah was convicted of homicide and serving to to breach UK immigration legislation Sentenced to 9 and a half years of home arrest In February, after the boat tried to cross on December 14, 2022.
During a retrial at Canterbury Crown Court, Bah mentioned the smugglers had threatened to kill him if he didn’t transfer the boat, however the prosecution mentioned he was not telling the reality.
Earlier within the Court of Appeal, Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr dominated that Bah couldn’t convey an attraction, ruling that it was not “arguable”.
Richard Thomas Casey, for Bah, beforehand described his trial as “touching on a highly politicized issue which gives rise to very strong emotions”.
Jurors heard that the home-made, low-quality inflatable dinghy was not alleged to have carried greater than 20 folks, however about 45 had been aboard that night time within the English Channel.
Mr Thomas advised the attraction courtroom the journey to the UK was a “joint effort”.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) opposed the attraction bid.
Duncan Atkinson Casey, for the CPS, beforehand mentioned: “This is a case where the passengers on the boat were acting in concert with their pilot.”
He added: “It was not the background or scene setting, it was the ongoing act of facilitating the time of their deaths that provided the circumstances in which the deaths occurred.”
Twenty-nine survivors had been delivered to the port of Dover after a British fishing boat got here throughout a sinking boat.
The RNLI, Air Ambulance and UK Border Force assisted him.
Three of those that died had been recognized solely as unidentified male individuals.
The title of the fourth particular person is Hazratullah Ahmadi, a 31-year-old man who got here from Afghanistan.
With inputs from BBC
