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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Gavin Cordon

No 10 vows ‘robust’ age checks for asylum seekers after fatal stabbing

The Government has said it is seeking to put in place “robust” measures to determine the age of asylum seekers arriving in the UK following the conviction of an Afghan man for the killing of a man in a row over an e-scooter.

Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai – who had previously been convicted of murder in Serbia – was found guilty on Monday of the murder of 21-year-old Thomas Roberts last year outside a sandwich shop in Bournemouth, Dorset.

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