A single mother is set to be deported from Bradford to Kenya which, she says, would put at risk the well-being of members of her family.

Caren Ondimu will have to return to her home country after losing her battle for asylum.

Over the past year Mrs Ondimu, 36, of Great Horton Road, has appealed on the grounds of safety of members of her family against the Home Office decision not to grant the family residency, but each appeal has been turned down. The final rejection came through at the end of last month and she has no further right to appeal. “I am so worried. Every time there is a knock at the door I think it will be someone asking us to leave." Mrs Ondimu, who used to be a school teacher in Kenya, said: "If we go back to Kenya I am also frightened for my own safety.” Mrs Ondimu's husband left her earlier this year and she has no contact with him. The family is being supported by the Reverend Chris Howson, the Anglican City Centre priest for Bradford and member of BEACON, Bradford Ecumenical Asylum Seekers Concern. Bradford West Labour MP Marsha Singh said: "Of course I am sympathetic to this woman and her family, but really there is no way to go on this one. I have complained on numerous occasions about cases similar to this, but once the adjudicator has made a decision about a case nobody will listen to an appeal." A Border and Immigration Agency spokesman said it was committed to the protection of genuine refugees who seek asylum in the UK, and decisions on asylum were not taken lightly. She said each case is considered in accordance with the country's obligations under the 1951 UN Refugee Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights. "If an application is refused, applicants have the right of appeal before an independent adjudicator, entirely removed from the Border and Immigration Agency and the Home Office. Where someone has exhausted the avenues of appeal open to them under the Immigration Rules and is found to have no legal basis to remain in the UK, we would seek to remove them."