Orphan ‘should be granted full citizenship’

An MSP has called for a ten-year-old schoolboy whose mother died while applying for asylum to be granted full citizenship.

The SNP’S Bob Doris has written to Home Secretary Sajid Javid urging the Home Office to take further action over the case of Giorgi Kakava, age ten.

He and his mother Sopio Baikhadze fled Georgia for Scotland seven years ago and were awaiting the outcome of an appeal for asylum in the UK when she died in February after a long illness.

The family’s case has been championed by Mr Doris.