PA MediaCopyright: PA MediaAbdul Shokoor Ezedi's body was found in the River Thames on 20 FebruaryImage caption: Abdul Shokoor Ezedi's body was found
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Alleged Clapham attacker Abdul Shokoor Ezedi is understood to have arrived in the UK from Afghanistan in a
lorry in 2016.
Ezedi was living in Newcastle, where in 2018 he had
been convicted of one charge of sexual assault and one of exposure.
Little is known about Ezedi’s life before his
arrival in the UK in 2016 but later that year, he first applied for asylum and
was refused.
His claim was refused a second time at an unknown
date. In this application, he said he had converted to Christianity, meaning he
would have been at risk if he returned to Afghanistan.
Ezedi appealed against this Home Office decision and
a tribunal overturned it in 2020, having heard from a church witness who said
he believed that Ezedi had converted to Christianity.
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