The suspect in the Clapham chemical attack was primarily assisted in his asylum application by a Baptist minister and not the Catholic Church, it has emerged.
Abdul Shokoor Ezedi, an Afghan, is suspected of throwing a corrosive alkaline substance over a woman and two children in South London, leaving the 31-year-old woman with such “life-changing” injuries to her face that she is being kept under sedation in hospital. Her two daughters, aged eight and three, are being treated for burns.
The Catholic Church was accused in the media of assisting and enabling Ezedi, 35, who is also a convicted sex offender, to stay in the UK when it was rumoured that “a priest” provided him with a reference for his asylum application.
