Kirk asks for asylum claiming 'Welsh police want to kill me'

FLYING vet Maurice Kirk is seeking asylum in Alderney.

Mr Kirk, who worked in Alderney for four years in the 1980s, yesterday submitted a letter to the island's States.

The 65-year-old former Guernsey resident hopes the Bailiwick will stop him being deported to Wales, as he claims police there are planning to shoot him.

Mr Kirk's handwritten letter said: 'I apply for asylum as a subject under severe police oppression in the Principality of Wales.'

States chief executive Roy Burke said: 'I have received a letter from Mr Kirk which I will consider and pass to the relevant authorities.'

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