An MP has called for US-style border checks in the UK after a murderer was able to holiday in England before launching a hammer attack on two police officers after missing his flight home.

Jamshid Piruz, who was born in Afghanistan but has Dutch citzenship, was initially jailed in the Netherlands and served six years of a 12-year jail term after he slit the throat of his female tenant in 2007.

Yesterday, Hove Crown Court heard that after arriving in Britain in December 2015 to visit relatives, Dutch citizen Piruz missed his return flight home from Gatwick Airport on January 4 2016.