A Leeds man is due to be executed in Pakistan following what human rights groups are calling an unfair trial.
Mirza Tahir Hussain was tried and convicted of murdering a taxi driver in 1988, when he was 18.
He was sentenced to death and has exhausted all legal appeals. The family are now asking the president of Pakistan to stop the execution.
Two Leeds MPs are now working with Mr Hussain's family to stop him being hanged on 1 June, his 36th birthday.
The family and Amnesty International say the taxi driver pulled out a gun and tried to physically and sexually assault him.
In the scuffle that followed, the gun went off, fatally injuring the taxi driver.
Hussain drove the taxi to a police patrol and was arrested after handing in the gun.
He was tried and convicted of murder but, following an appeal, the death penalty was revoked and he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Following a second appeal, Mr Hussain was acquitted of all charges against him by the High Court.
But when the case was re-opened in 1998 and Mr Hussain was re-tried, the High Court's decision was reversed and he was sentenced to death again.
Amnesty International said he had not received a fair trial because of the "contradictory statements of the different courts."
The human rights group also said: "The Islamic provision under which he was tried requires that the death penalty should only be imposed if reliable eyewitness accounts or a confession to the court are submitted.
"In this case, neither was obtained."
The taxi driver's family have refused compensation offered by Hussain's family, which could allow him to be pardoned.
'Miscarriage of justice'
Hussain's brother Amjad, who lives in Headingley, told the BBC the family's hopes now rested on an appeal for clemency to President Pervez Musharraf.
He said: "Unfortunately he's a trained killer and a general so I'm not sure how he's going to heed people's word.
"I've tried, I've been campaigning for him and I've been making noises and I'm just hoping that the powers that be can prevail upon him and basically prevent this gross miscarriage of justice."
Amjad said Mirza came to England from Pakistan when he was 11. He joined the TA after leaving school and travelled to Pakistan in 1988 for a Christmas break with his family.
Leeds MPs Greg Mullholland and John Battle are working with the family and the Foreign Office to try to prevent the execution.
A spokesman for the Foreign Office said: "Because he has dual nationality we would not normally have jurisdiction, but because he is facing the death penalty we are making representations to the government.
"It is still on-going and representations will continue at the highest level."
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