An Iraqi Kurdish asylum seeker has murdered his supervisor in Britain

Alastair Taylor:

A BOSS ticked off an asylum seeker working at his factory for being late — and the knife nut stabbed him to death.

Victim Mark Conway, 28, was left dying in a pool of blood after calling the Iraqi Kurd into his office.

Maniac Saman Karim, 26 — who had turned up four hours late — went in armed with a seven-inch kitchen knife.

He repeatedly plunged the blade into the supervisor — with one wound reaching up to the hilt.

Yesterday Karim was caged for life after admitting the frenzied murder at Lands garlic bread factory in Hull. The brute — who had been REFUSED permission to stay in the UK but was still here after launching an appeal — was ordered by a judge to serve at least 16 years.

After the case, Mr Conway’s devastated mother Barbara said: “Lessons need to be learned and acted upon. Mark’s tragic death should never have happened.”

Hull Crown Court heard Karim regularly carried a knife. Girlfriend Sarah Watson told how he had slashed her arms, pointed a blade at her stomach and had thrown a knife at one of her friends.

She described Karim as “paranoid, violent and volatile”. On the day of the murder last August, he was “in a strop” after losing £750 gambling.

Mr Conway, who was knifed in the stomach, was described as a “happy and good boss”.

Prosecutor Gary Burrell QC said: “He did not have a chance.”

Karim, who came to Britain in 1999, was seen wiping his hands on his tracksuit as he hurried from the office.

His refugee visa had run out seven months before the murder.

Karim claimed through an interpreter that the killing was an “accident”. Judge Michael Mettyear told him: “This was a wholly unnecessary loss of life of a good man simply doing his job.”

Mr Conway’s mum, a teacher, said: “Mark was murdered in a vicious and merciless knife attack. His workplace should have been a safe environment.”

Det Supt Richard Kerman said: “Karim is a dangerous man.”

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