A SECOND campaign to get a law of causing death while driving disqualified passed through Parliament in honour of a 12-year-old Blackburn road victim has been launched.

While Hyndburn MP Greg Pope has pledged to continue lobbying the Government to get Amy's Law - named after Amy Houston, who died in November 2003 - Ribble Valley Tory Nigel Evans has vowed to take action too.

He wants to get the proposal included in the Conservative Party's election manifesto, which would in turn put pressure on the Labour Government to include it in their campaign.

Amy, of Ravenglass Close, Blackburn, was killed after being hit by a car driven by failed asylum seeker Aso Mohammed Ibrahim, who had been banned from driving in the UK.

He was sent to prison for four months for driving while disqualified and uninsured, and for failing to stop at the scene of the accident, in Newfield Drive, Blackburn.

Since the sentencing, last December, Amy's father Paul, of Russia Street, Accrington, has fought for a law to be passed meaning that people involved in fatal accidents while driving disqualified automatically get charged.

Hyndburn MP Greg Pope has already won cross-party support for taking up Mr Houston's fight, and last month Transport Secretary Alistair Darling pledged to consider including Amy's Law in the review of transport laws currently ongoing.

However, a draft of the bill did not include any mention of the laws Mr Pope had called for - and now he has begun lobbying the Home Office in the hope it will introduce a stiffer penalty.

After receiving a letter from Mr Houston, Mr Evans said he intends to take the battle to his party masters.

He added: "Quite simply, the law has failed here and it needs to be changed. As a party, we have already pledged to sort out motoring laws and I think the courts and the police need the powers to see justice is done in circumstances like this.

"I will be talking to senior people within the Conservative Party to get Amy's Law included within our manifesto for the next election.

"Not only do I think it will get a lot of support, I believe that it will put more pressure on the government for them to take action."

Mr Houston said: "I am very pleased Mr Evans is doing this, hopefully we are starting to get somewhere."

Mr Pope had relaunched his campaign for the start of the new parliamentary year.