An asylum seeker who travelled from Pakistan to Bradford refused to go to London for an appeal hearing because he claimed to suffer from travel sickness.

Javaid Iqbal, 20, sent a fax to Mr Justice Henriques asking for his case to be adjourned because he claimed he got ill on buses and could not find a friend to give him a lift.

Mr Iqbal, originally from Pakistan, but now of Legrams Lane, Bradford, was challenging an Immigration Appeal Tribunal decision not to grant him an oral hearing over his failed asylum application. He also complained of being ill.

A doctor's note said he was recovering from food poisoning and has a history of bleeding.

But after hearing Mr Iqbal regularly failed to turn up for court hearings related to his case, Mr Justice Henriques dismissed his application to seek judicial review.

He now faces being deported back to Pakistan.

"Mr Iqbal failed to put forward to the tribunal any evidence he had a well-founded fear of prosecution if he returned to Pakistan," said the judge.

"Even now, there is no information of his asylum application.

"As for him having travel sickness from a bus and some bleeding from an unspecified part of his anatomy, this is insufficient cause to persuade me to have an adjournment."

In Mr Iqbal's written submissions to the court he complained that his life was in real danger if he was forced to return to Pakistan, where he said he may be subjected to torture.

"My life is at stake and none of the parties have looked at this," he said.

Mr Iqbal - who says by denying him an oral hearing, his basic human right to family and private life is being violated - was refused an oral hearing by the Immigration Appeal Tribunal on October 16 of last year.

The Telegraph & Argus could not contact Mr Iqbal for comment.