Jumping to conclusions, the home secretary appeared to casually conflate asylum seekers with dangerous criminals
There is still too much we don’t know about the Liverpool bomber, who died in a burning taxi outside a women’s hospital on Remembrance Sunday.
We know that Emad al-Swealmeen had been assembling bomb ingredients since April, and that he had suffered episodes of mental illness. But police still aren’t sure whether a hospital full of mothers and their newborn babies was really his intended target, or what twisted motivations drove him. We know he tried and failed to claim asylum, exhausting his rights to appeal reportedly in early 2017, but it’s unclear how he managed to avoid being deported after that.
