I AM writing in response to "Asylum failures are left to live in limbo" published on January 17.

We are told during the court hearing that Karwan Karim stole to highlight the fact that having exhausted all the appeals he could make (at your and my expense, I might add) that he no longer had the benefit which he has enjoyed for the past three years.

I wonder if he was also trying to highlight the problem that we are having with speed cameras, because he was also prosecuted at the same time for not having a driving licence, insurance, tax or a MoT.

Up to now, more than 500 of our servicemen and American Service men and women have been killed trying to make his country a safe place to live.

He has had for the last three years been provided with accommodation, food, clothing and heating, which is more than most Britons are given when they can't work. As far as not sending him home is concerned, he managed to get here OK by himself, going through many other countries to get to England, so now that he has had permission to stay here denied can be not make his own way back?

He has proved that the government was quite right in their decision to not allow him to stay because by committing these offences he has indeed shown he is an undesirable.

ROY DAVIES, Olive Lane, Darwen.