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| A senior High Court judge has refused a government request to reconsider a tribunal's decision to prevent a murderer being deported to Italy. | A senior High Court judge has refused a government request to reconsider a tribunal's decision to prevent a murderer being deported to Italy. |
| Learco Chindamo, the murderer of London head teacher Philip Lawrence, could be released from prison next year. | |
| An immigration tribunal had ruled that Chindamo, jailed in 1996, could not be deported when he is freed. | An immigration tribunal had ruled that Chindamo, jailed in 1996, could not be deported when he is freed. |
| The government wanted to challenge the ruling but the judge refused to allow the case to be reconsidered. | The government wanted to challenge the ruling but the judge refused to allow the case to be reconsidered. |
| Italian-born Chindamo, now 27, stabbed Mr Lawrence at the gates of his west London school when he was 15. | |
| Mr Lawrence was trying to protect another pupil at the time of the incident. | Mr Lawrence was trying to protect another pupil at the time of the incident. |
| Philip Lawrence was trying to protect another pupil when he was stabbed | |
| In Wednesday's ruling in the High Court, Mr Justice Collins, upheld the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal's decision that Chindamo cannot be deported on release, when he becomes eligible for parole next year. | |
| He said: "There is no error of law in the careful determination of the tribunal." | |
| The judge emphasised his decision was mainly based on EU regulations and the fact that it would be "disproportionate" to remove Chindamo, as an EU citizen, under those regulations. | |
| Although he was born in Italy, Chindamo has lived in the UK since the age of six. | |
| The ruling will come as a blow to immigration minister Liam Byrne, who says the government wants foreign nationals who commit serious crimes to be "automatically deported". |