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Katie Boyden

Police name suspect in ‘hate-filled’ Dover immigration centre firebombing

Police officers by a tent around the car allegedly involved in an incident near the migrant processing centre in Dover, Kent. Picture date: Sunday October 30, 2022. (Picture: PA Wire)

Counter-terror police are leading an investigation into the firebombing of an immigration processing centre in Dover which detectives suspect was sparked by “some form of hate filled grievance”.

Kent Police said the man suspected of carrying out Sunday’s attack was 66-year-old Andrew Leak from High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire.

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