THE asylum case of a ten year-old Glasgow boy who was left orphaned when his mum died this year has been raised with the Prime Minister.

Giorgi Kakava, from Springburn is at risk of being deported to Georgia unless he and his gran are granted refugee status by the UK Home Office.

The boy’s mother Sopio known as Sophie died in February before her asylum application could be completed.

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He has been living with his gran since then but she has been living in Scotland illegally after she abandoned her plans to return to Georgia when her daughter died.

Paul Sweeney, Glasgow North East Labour MP asked the Prime Minister to ensure Giorgi was not sent to a country he has no knowledge of.

Mr Sweeney told Theresa May during Prime Minister’s Questions: ““Giorgi is 10 years old. He was tragically orphaned in February. He has lived in Glasgow since he was three years old.

“His only language is English and he speaks it with the same accent as I do.

“Yet he now faces being deported to Georgia, his late mother’s country of birth, becoming another statistic that suffers at the hands of this Prime Minister’s hostile environment policy.”

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He asked: “Will the Prime Minister promise today that he will not, under any circumstances, be torn from his school friends in Glasgow and sent to a country that is entirely foreign to him?”

The Prime Minister said Mr Sweeney raised “a very specific individual case. It is right it should be looked at properly.

“That is what I will ask the Home Office to do.”

Local Minister Rev Brian Casey of Springburn Parish Church has led a campaign to allow Giorgi to stay in Scotland and has gathered thousands of signatures on a petition.

The 60,000 strong petition was handed in to the Home Office in Glasgow where officials will decide on teh case, by Giorgi’s grandmother Ketino.

Rev Casey said: “I am very pleased that Prime Minister Theresa May has assured the House of Commons that her Home Secretary will examine Giorgi’s case personally and carefully. Seeing Sajid Javid nodding his head in agreement was reassuring that he will take it very seriously.”

Giorgi was three years-old, when he fled Georgia with his mother Sopio Baikhadze after she discovered his father, who later died, owed money to gangsters there.