08 November 2007
In brief
The killer of head teacher Philip Lawrence will not be deported to Italy when he is released from prison, the High Court has ruled. The court upheld an earlier ruling by an asylum and immigration tribunal that Italian-born Learco Chindamo no longer posed a serious threat to society and that under EU immigration rules an EU citizen can not be expelled because he has committed a serious crime. It also stated that any deportation would also represent a breach of Chindamo’s Art 8 rights which protect an individual’s right to family life. Chindamo, 27, has lived in the UK since the age of six and was found guilty of Lawrence’s murder in 1996.
