New details have emerged about the Liverpool bomber, Emad Al Swealmeen’s numerous failed asylum attempts and the false information he used to make his cases.
The asylum claim of the Liverpool bomber was dismissed as “not credible” almost seven years before he attempted to blow up a maternity hospital on Remembrance Sunday.
Swealmeen had lied repeatedly to try to stay in Britain but his case fell apart by 2015 which raises the question of why he was never deported in the following six years.
The judge who had rejected his first asylum case suggested he could have been thrown out of Britain immediately – but he remained in Liverpool where he built a bomb factory in his flat and then blew himself up on November 14 last year.
Swealmeen had claimed to be Syrian and in fear of his life when he arrived in Britain in April 2014. However it was quickly discovered that he was lying based on his language and lack of documents and lack of basic knowledge concerning the country.
His asylum application was rejected in November 2014 and his appeal failed in April 2015 and yet no move was made to remove him from the country.
In 2017, he was arrested after threatening people with a knife in a Liverpool underpass but he was still allowed to stay in the country and get a job.
He died in a suicide bombing outside the Liverpool Women’s Hospital in November 2021. Questions have been raised about why he was not deported before he could try to blow up a hospital.
Sources: BBC, Daily Mail
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