A Lawyer Writes

A Lawyer Writes

One murder is enough

Appeal judges overturn rulings that wife-killer is no danger to the UK

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Joshua Rozenberg
Mar 24, 2026
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The home secretary has won an appeal against a ruling by a tribunal judge that an asylum seeker should be allowed to remain in the UK because he had murdered only one person.

The killer, a 54-year-old Turkish national identified only as KD, arrived on a lorry in 2001 and claimed asylum on the basis of his Kurdish ethnic origin and his Alevi Muslim faith,…

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