It came as the manhunt for Ezedi continued with police revealing new CCTV images of his last known sighting on a Victoria Line train heading south at 9pm on Wednesday, around an hour and a half after the attack in Clapham.
The 31-year-old mother, whom he attacked with a corrosive substance, was described by police as “very poorly” with injuries that are expected to be life-changing. The wounds to her daughters, aged three and eight, are described as not “as serious as first thought” and “not likely to be life-changing”.
On Friday, Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, wrote to James Cleverly, the Home Secretary, to ask whether the Home Office made “representations during the appeal hearing that the individual should be denied asylum because of his offending history”.
“It is of real concern that a convicted foreign national sex offender has been allowed to remain in the UK in these circumstances,” she said.
Home Office sources said Mr Cleverly has asked for a full report on all the criminal and immigration aspects of the case to establish exactly what happened.
Suella Braverman said the case showed why the UK needed to quit the European Convention on Human Rights, which prevented the UK from deporting criminals.
“Spurious claims based on religion are commonplace in our asylum system. The bar is low, it’s easy to game the system and it happens,” said the former home secretary.
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