A minister has slammed “gullible clerics” and “left-wing lawyers” after documents seen by Sky News reveal how Clapham chemical attacker Abdul Ezedi was granted asylum after being baptized .
Science Minister Andrew Griffith said Ezedi Attacked a woman and two children Having a base in London earlier this year, he should not have been able to enter the UK illegally and stay in the UK on a priest’s sponsorship.
Home Secretary James Cleverly called on the “vast majority” of Christian churches to “relay the potential harm” that “rightly or wrongly would be seen as a breach of the integrity of our asylum system,” in the appeal. Conversion to Christianity was proposed,” said a source close to him.
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Minister blames ‘gullible clergy’ and ‘flawed lawyers’
Ezedi, who is from Afghanistan, was refused asylum twice by the Home Office after arriving in the UK in a lorry in 2016.
The second refusal was overturned by a judge at an appeal hearing in October 2020 because Ezeidi claimed to have converted to Christianity. Claims he would risk persecution if returned to Afghanistan were backed by a pastor.
A massive search operation was launched for Ezedi following the January 31 attack, complete with CCTV images His face was severely injured.his body Recycled from the Thames A few weeks later.
Mr Griffiths told Kay Burley on Breakfast: “We cannot run an asylum system based on gullible clergy and left-handed lawyers.
“That’s why we’re fundamentally reforming it.”
When Mr Griffiths questioned what he meant by “gullible clergy” he said: “Gullibility is not diligence, inquiry, or the acceptance that this may be a forgery for that purpose.
“We know, we know about this particular case, but we do know there are loopholes lawyers are grooming people to…”
Mr Griffiths initially insisted on using the word “grooming” but later agreed “coaching” was a “better word”.
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Abdul Ezeidi
A source close to the home secretary said the consequences of Ezedi’s asylum application being granted were “shocking”.
“This reputational risk is only magnified by the fact that some of those who denied knowing Ezedi at the time actually knew him within their churches and provided support and vouch for him.”
as well as file exposure, Sky News also obtained photos of Ezeidi, who is also a convicted sex offender, being baptized in the church.
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Griffiths stressed that Ezedi did not initially apply for asylum on religious grounds and said the government’s Rwanda Security Bill – which would deport certain migrants to the East African country – would help prevent similar incidents The case happened again.
Labour’s shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said the latest revelations about Ezedi “raised some serious and urgent questions for the Home Office”.
“The Home Secretary must explain why his department failed to deport Ezedi from the UK in the two years after his first asylum application was refused, particularly after he was convicted of sex offences.”
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