{"id":44602,"date":"2024-12-11T10:58:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T10:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/migrant-boat-pilot-loses-bid-to-appeal-sentence\/"},"modified":"2024-12-11T10:58:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T10:58:29","slug":"migrant-boat-pilot-loses-bid-to-appeal-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/migrant-boat-pilot-loses-bid-to-appeal-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrant boat pilot loses bid to appeal sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"


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An asylum seeker who piloted a boat in the English Channel where four passengers drowned has not been successful in a bid to bring a challenge against his convictions and sentence.<\/p>\n

Ibrahima Bah was convicted of manslaughter and of facilitating a breach of UK immigration law and sentenced to nine and a half years’ detention<\/a> in February, after steering the dinghy in an attempted crossing in December 2022.<\/p>\n

During a retrial at Canterbury Crown Court, Bah said smugglers threatened to kill him if he did not drive the boat, but the prosecution said he was not telling the truth.<\/p>\n

At the Court of Appeal earlier, Bah did not get the green light to bring his challenge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr said Bah could not bring the appeal, ruling it was not “arguable”.<\/p>\n

Richard Thomas KC, for Bah, previously described his trial as “touching on a highly politicised issue which gives rise to very strong feelings”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jurors heard the home-built, low-quality inflatable dinghy should have had no more than 20 people on board, but carried about 45 people in the English Channel that night.<\/p>\n

Mr Thomas told the Court of Appeal it had been a “joint endeavour” to travel to the UK.<\/p>\n

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) opposed the appeal bid.<\/p>\n

Duncan Atkinson KC, for the CPS, previously said: “This is a case where the passengers on the boat were acting in concert with their pilot.”<\/p>\n

He added: “It was not the background or the scene setting, it was the continued act of facilitation at the time of their deaths which provided the circumstances in which the deaths occurred.”<\/p>\n

Thirty nine survivors were brought to the Port of Dover after a UK fishing boat came across the sinking dinghy.<\/p>\n

They were helped by the RNLI, air ambulance and UK Border Force.<\/p>\n

Three of those who died were known only as unknown male persons.<\/p>\n

The fourth person was named as Hajratullah Ahmadi, a 31-year-old man who had come from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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