An illegal immigrant whose car knocked down and killed a 12-year-old Black Country boy is finally set to be thrown out of Britain more than five years after the tragedy, it was revealed today.

The news comes on what would have been the 18th birthday of victim Jamie Mason.

Aaron Chisango will be deported back to his native Zimbabwe within a week, according to sources within the Border Agency.

Wednesfield High School pupil Jamie from Blackwood Avenue, Wednesfield was crossing nearby Cannock Road to reach his sister Tracy in January 2005 when hit by a black Rover 620 driven by Chisango, who should have left the UK three months earlier and was in the process of being deported when the accident happened.

Chisango had been in the UK since 1998 but did not leave the country when his student visa expired. He had no UK driving licence nor insurance and had been drinking whisky the night before the crash.

There was outrage when he was jailed for just two months.

A Border Agency source said today: “He is in the process of being removed and will be out of the country in less than two months. He has got no other option since all appeal procedures are exhausted. He is not being held in a detention centre but we know where to get hold of him.”

Jamie’s sister Tracy Mason, now 36, from Lower Prestwood Road, Wednesfield, said today: “Now I know that I will never have to deal with the emotions of seeing him face to face.

“There is a small sense of justice at long last but I just wish that Chisango had been deported when he should have been and then Jamie would still be alive to celebrate his birthday today.”

Simon Excell, UK Border Agency Deputy Director for the Midlands and East, declined to discuss individual cases but said: “Where the Courts find that an individual has no right to remain in the UK and can return safely, we would rather they leave voluntarily.

“When people refuse to go home we will enforce their removal. The situation in Zimbabwe is improving and we are normalising our returns policy as the political situation develops.”