Asylum seeker boat pilot makes bid to appeal against convictions and sentence

Protesters gathered outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London (Ben Whitley/PA) - (PA Wire)

An asylum seeker convicted of manslaughter after four migrants died as he steered a boat across the English Channel has made a bid to bring a challenge against his convictions and sentence at the Court of Appeal.  

Ibrahima Bah was sentenced to nine and a half years’ detention after the deaths as he piloted the “unseaworthy” boat between France and the UK on December 14 2022.