A failed asylum seeker who killed a father-of-two while driving without a licence or insurance was jailed for just nine months today.
Delshad Aziz, 28, was working illegally for a furniture removals company when he drove his van into Anthony Edney last year.
Mr Edney, 44, was catapulted off his scooter and died in hospital of a ruptured artery shortly after the crash.
Today his heartbroken wife Maria expressed her anger at the length of the sentence and demanded Aziz be sent straight back to Iraq.
However, Aziz will almost certainly be able to stay in the UK when he is released because the judge did not issue a deportation order with the jail sentence.
The Iraqi is then expected to continue his appeal against his failed asylum application - a process which is notoriously slow.
Speaking after the sentencing hearing, Mrs Edney, 40, called for a change in the law to end asylum rights for criminals.
'Nine months is nothing and he will only do half of that,' she said.
'I want to see the law changed so that anyone who applies for asylum can be deported straight away if they are convicted of an offence.
'I do not want him sitting in a British prison cell being looked after by the taxpayer while I have to look at my children suffering every day, crying for their daddy.
'We were paying him benefits even though he had been rejected for asylum and he was still working illegally. Someone let him behind the wheel without checking out his background.
'This has had an awful effect on our family, all because of a man who shouldn't have been driving.'
Mrs Edney, who lives in Portslade, East Sussex, with their children Kieran, four, and Jade, seven, described her husband as a 'devoted father' who put his family before everything else.
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