(BBC) An asylum seeker who piloted a boat in the English Channel where four passengers drowned has lost his bid to challenge his convictions and sentence.
Ibrahima Bah was convicted of manslaughter and of facilitating a breach of UK immigration law and sentenced to nine and a half years’ detention in February, after steering the dinghy in an attempted crossing on 14 December 2022.
During a retrial at Canterbury Crown Court, Bah said smugglers threatened to kill him if he did not drive the boat, but the prosecution said he was not telling the truth.
At the Court of Appeal earlier, the Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr said Bah could not bring the appeal, ruling it was not “arguable.”
