Beshenivskiy suspect flees in veil

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This, more or less, probably wouldn't pass for fiction, never mind reality. The guy suspected of shooting P.C. Beshenivskiy is now thought to have fled the U.K. in his sister's burkha through an airport.
Seeing as he was covered from head to toe in disguise and due to sensitivities regarding the veil, he was never subjected to any identity check and simply boarded the next plane out to Somalia.
Surely that must make people question why we all need these so-called I.D. cards to "improve national security".
To cap it off, this guy Mustaf Jama came here because we're told his life was in danger in Somalia which entitled him to welfare handouts e.t.c. Now we see Somalia maybe isn't so dangerous seeing as he just took the first flight out back to his homeland :confused: .
Here it is:
"The row broke out after the disclosure this week that Mustaf Jama, who is wanted in connection with the murder of Pc Sharon Beshenivsky, may have escaped by dressing in a niqab, which covers the whole face except the eyes.
Jama, 26, is believed to have left for his native Somalia using his sister's passport. Although ports had been alerted, it is unlikely a veiled woman would have been asked to show her face during passport checks. Inspections are no longer carried out by immigration officers on a routine basis for departees."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/21/nveil21.xml
A journalist comments thus:
"And it beggars belief that while travellers are routinely asked to remove coats, jackets and shoes and do a virtual striptease as they shuffle through security — not to mention having bottles of water and other apparently innocuous items confiscated — a passenger whose face is almost totally concealed from view might simply be waved through.."