A GRIEVING father has hit out at the ‘total incompetence’ of officials dealing with the asylum seeker who killed his daughter in a road crash.

Paul Houston has been fighting for the deportation of Aso Mohammed Ibrahim for seven years since the death of 12-year-old Amy in Blackburn.

But after finally being granted an appeal hearing, it has been cancelled at several days’ notice over what the agency describes as a ‘clerical error’.

Ibrahim successfully appealed his deportation last December on the grounds that he has a wife and two children in Blackburn.

That decision was set to be challenged at a higher court tomorrow after an appeal by the Home Office, Rossendale & Darwen MP Jake Berry and Blackburn MP Jack Straw.

But the hearing has been scrapped because the same judge was listed to hear the appeal.

Mr Houston, of Argyle Street, Darwen, said: “I’m very angry. You just couldn’t make it up.

“I asked when it was going to be reallocated to and the attitude was ‘whenever we get round to it’.

“I’ve had seven years of this and I’m going to see if I can now put in an official complaint.

“It’s total incompetence that this has been allowed to happen.

“If I made basic errors in my job like this, I’d be sacked.”

MP Jake Berry, who had been planning to attend court with Mr Houston, said the delay was ‘completely unacceptable’.

A spokeswoman for the UK Border Agency confirmed that the appeal had been postponed.

Her Majesty’s Courts Service were unavailable for comment.

Amy died after being hit crossing the road in Highercroft, Blackburn.

Ibrahim ran off from the scene, leaving Amy under the wheels of his car.

He was later found to have been driving while disqualified, without insurance, or a licence.