A judge granted asylum to the Clapham chemical attacker despite concluding that he had told a litany of lies about various aspects of his life, court documents have revealed.
William O’Hanlon ruled that Abdul Ezedi’s conversion to Christianity was genuine, based on “compelling evidence” from a retired Baptist minister who can today be named as Roy Merrin.
The judge’s decision to grant asylum came despite him expressing concerns about the “honesty of the appellant in relation to certain aspects of his account”.
Ezedi attacked a mother and her two children with a corrosive alkali substance in Clapham, south London, after driving from his home in Newcastle upon Tyne in January.
Hours later he walked to Chelsea Bridge and threw himself into the Thames. His body
