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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Lizzie Dearden

Liverpool bomber’s asylum claim was thrown out six years before attack after lying about being from Syria

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The man who detonated a bomb outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital had his asylum claim thrown out by a judge six years before the attack after he lied about being from Syria.

Emad al-Swealmeen, 32, arrived in the UK in April 2014 and claimed asylum weeks later, but was refused protection and told he could be deported to Iraq or Jordan because his claim was “not credible”.

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