Clapham acid attacker - asylum seeker convicted of sex offence but still granted asylum?

It seems probable he’s being helped and hidden. It’s not often I feel angry enough to say - I hope his injury becomes incredibly painful and infected. Unless his supporters have a doctor in their midst, he will eventually have to seek help. Or a more permanent treatment

I couldn’t agree more. The greater his suffering the better.

Unless of course he has put himself out of his own suffering - even better.

He will be hiding in plain sight helped by his own kind. He apparently loaded an international SIM card on a pay as you go. He’s being helped.

I jut hope he is found and brought to justice.

He is too much of a coward to take his own life. Anyone hiding, aiding and abetting needs to give their head a wobble.

Our courts don’t sentence harshly enough despite the overwhelming evidence of harm caused.

No they don’t. When this man is eventually caught, he will not be removed from the country, he will go through the criminal justice system, and end up costing us all a great deal of money whilst he is in prison. After a few years he will be released back into the community to repeat his sexual offences and/or any other violent offences. The defence could well be ‘mentally unwell’ in which case he could end up in a secure hospital for an indefinite period, which usually means a couple of years, because someone will decide he is safe to be back in the community.
I’m not one of the hang em and flog em brigade, but with a case such as this, I really do think the population of the country has been taken for fools. When caught, in my opinion, he should be deported immediately. Of course, with our lax borders, he could easily slip back in again, because we really do not know who is coming into this country on rubber dinghies or in the back of lorries. I don’t consider myself racist, but if it is racist to say that, then I must be tarred with that brush.

maddyone 👍🏻

Of course it’s not racist. You would say the same,rightly, if he was a Caucasian from Belgium, Holland or wherever. He committed a vile crime, he needs to go. Why should the British pay for his imprisonment,come to that?

Several years ago a criminal who was being sent back to Somalia was taken off the plane after protests from other passengers that he shouldn't be deported. He has now left the country, after costing the taxpayer over £1,000,000. I hope those applauding as he was taken off the plane now know what he had done - lured a young girl into a flat and attacked her, with three other men. I cannot understand why this is tolerated by the justice system - the protesting passengers should have been taken off, and the deportation completed as the law had decreed.

Is it true that he was granted asylum after he committed a sexual offence?

Sky News understands this is the case.

So his claim was twice refused, he commits a sexual offence... and is then granted asylum. On what basis?

Surely, even 'converting' to Christianity would not alter the grounds on which his claim was initially refused?

maddyone

^Those who think the Tories are best placed to sort this out should take a reality check.^

Do you really think that Labour will sort it out? If you do, you’re in for a very big disappointment. Although immigration has been increasing over many years, it was the Blair government who opened the floodgates. And we’ve never looked back. Immigration, both legal and illegal, has simply increased and increased, year on year, whoever is in government, and since the last Labour government deliberately opened up access into Britain, the next Labour government is unlikely to act any differently. Meanwhile we are unable to access health care as needed, there are insufficient school places, young adults can’t afford to buy a house, or even rent one in many cases, the roads are overcrowded, we apparently have insufficient water in the summer, and although some people would like to deny it, a significant number of immigrants have committed crimes, many of which are serious. We don’t deport anyone, regardless of their crimes. It takes years to hear asylum cases, and we spend millions of pounds a day on accommodating people in hotels. You actually couldn’t make it up!
Vote Labour or indeed LD if you wish, or vote Conservative if you wish, it won’t make a jot of difference.

100% agree with you maddyone

Thank you Sharon.
I hope that others don’t take that as a racist post, because it’s not meant to be, it’s simply meant to point out that we have ever increasing immigration and we lack the facilities needed to cater for all of us, the immigrants and those of us who are already here. I absolutely applaud all those wonderful people who we meet in our everyday lives, doctors, nurses, hospitality workers, and all the others who contribute to our national life, wherever they come from. But we should not be blinded to the truth, the facilities are inadequate and yet we continue to add to our number. Asylum seekers cost us an enormous amount of money because our public services are not capable of processing their claims quickly, to then allow them to contribute to society, or be deported. Deportation is totally and utterly inadequate and allows people who have been rejected for whatever reason, to stay on literally for years. And during that time, some of them go on to commit terrible crimes such as this man has done, although in his case, he had been given leave to remain. Why he was given leave to remain, God only knows, because none of us know.

It doesn’t matter who you vote for, it won’t make a shred of difference.
Every political party believes that more people is a good thing.

I’m going to spoil my ballot paper. It’s the only way I can protest.

Dickens, your summary is accurate. He was twice refused asylum and in 2018 convicted of a sexual assault and indecent exposer, both of which he pleaded guilty to. He was given a suspended sentence. His application for asylum was granted in 2020. If he’d been sentenced to two years for the sexual offences he would not have been granted asylum. It’s the length of the sentence, nit the seriousness of the crime.

I’m not hang n flog as my posts show but - sex offenders remain a danger. We know nothing about the type of offence but his guilty plea suggests to me his lawyer knew a guilty finding inevitable. I’d be surprised if he wasn’t advised to go guilty and avoid a trial that would have led to a more (sensible) serious sentence.

Good post Iam,and I agree with you.
I’m not a hang em and flog em person either. I abhor the death sentence. However this particular man should surely have received a custodial sentence for not one, but two, sexual offences. And had he been deported after his applications were turned down, he wouldn’t have been able to horrendously injure this young woman and her children.

I had thought that he made a third application for asylum after the first two were turned down but according to the article below it was an appeal, so would have been decided by a judge. As Iam says, had he received a custodial sentence of at least twelve months for the sexual offences he would not have been granted asylum. Likewise if he had been placed on the sex offenders register. Becoming a Christian was an obvious ploy cooked up by his lawyers. Christians don’t act as he did.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/02/clapham-chemical-attack-how-sex-offender-suspect-abdul-ezedi-granted-asylum#:~:text=He%20was%20convicted%20of%20sexual,of%20less%20than%2012%20months.

Germanshepherdsmum it has been reported that he was put on the sexual offenders register in 2018 for 10 years.

In that case, according to the article I posted refusal of asylum would be mandatory. I wonder if ‘becoming a Christian’ trumps that? Perhaps it does on the basis that a (real) Christian would be at risk in Afghanistan. So down to the lawyers. I have no professional respect for these disgusting people.

There are definitely people out there that know how to play the U.K. asylum system.

I feel sorry for genuine asylum seekers as they could end up being judged harshly due to the actions of others.

wooden spoon,when you say 'his own kind' what do you mean?
Afghans, Muslims,illegals (hateful term)

I believe that as a convert to Christianity he would be in great danger ( execution?) if he returned to Afghanistan. Therefore, if he is discovered, arrested and convicted, following his sentence he will be unable to be returned to his home country, because the risk to his safety outweighs that to anyone here. Clever.

Of course, he could be in a strict Islamic country now. and this is only speculation, being congratulated at having punished a woman for transgressions against his code of behaviour.

It is the system that is wrong. However, the media have said he was successful in his 3rd application because of his conversion to Christianity as it suits their rhetoric but for all we know there might have been other reasons not declared. There obviously needs to be an investigation once the man is found, charged and convicted.
We do need a more robust Asylum process so that people aren't able to make endless applications. Maybe we should have special Courts who can make a "final" decision rather than clogging up the system.
No doubt this country has always had acid type attacks but it does seem that certain crimes seem far more vicious from certain parts of the world. It is just an impression I get but that might just be how it is reported.
I think at this time we should be concentrating on the finding of this man and healing of the people involved.

Clever
Manipulative and helped by lawyers and others who know how to work the system.

Iam64

Dickens, your summary is accurate. He was twice refused asylum and in 2018 convicted of a sexual assault and indecent exposer, both of which he pleaded guilty to. He was given a suspended sentence. His application for asylum was granted in 2020. If he’d been sentenced to two years for the sexual offences he would not have been granted asylum. It’s the length of the sentence, nit the seriousness of the crime.

I’m not hang n flog as my posts show but - sex offenders remain a danger. We know nothing about the type of offence but his guilty plea suggests to me his lawyer knew a guilty finding inevitable. I’d be surprised if he wasn’t advised to go guilty and avoid a trial that would have led to a more (sensible) serious sentence.

Thanks for the clarification Iam64 - with the media, I'm never quite sure whether I'm reading the facts.

His application for asylum was granted in 2020. If he’d been sentenced to two years for the sexual offences he would not have been granted asylum. It’s the length of the sentence, nit the seriousness of the crime.

There's a couple of troubling issues here, for me (and I suspect others, too).

Presumably, the length of a sentence is supposed to reflect its severity? And this individual was given a suspended sentence - again presumably - because he pleaded guilty to the offences.

So the lawyer is earning his bread by doing his job - irrespective of what he personally thinks or feels about his client - which is how it works.

And the Law allows for a sentence to be suspended, assuming the defendant and society will be better served by it.

This principle doesn't always bode well for women does it (regardless of the status of the defendant)? Sexual offences might be a 'one-off', or they might well be part of a more serious personality disorder (for want of a better word). Of course, I can't speculate on this particular case because it's ongoing.

However, this individual was refused his claim for asylum twice - there must have been a valid reason... what invalidated it so that it was overturned? Rhetorical questions.

There's a huge backlash against asylum seekers and immigrants in our society, and we are very divided on the matter. I don't want to be part of either camp. I don't believe asylum seekers are all rapists or medieval terrorists, nor do I think they are all genuinely seeking asylum from war or persecution. I want a government that deals with the matter openly and honestly - and efficiently, because refugees are a problem for the whole of Europe and one that is not going to just 'go away'.

Is the EU's Migration Deal pact working?

I really hope this man is caught very soon. He's desperate and dangerous. I keep thinking about his poor victim who now has life-changing injuries. In a matter of seconds, her life has changed forever. And God only knows how the trauma will affect her two children. It seems their injuries are not quite as bad as thought at first, thank goodness.

A reward of up to £20,000 is now being offered for information leading to his arrest.

It's amazing how he is eluding capture, especially with those injuries.