Liverpool Women's Hospital bomber 'lied repeatedly' on asylum forms

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Court documents seen by the BBC after a legal application reveal that the man who blew himself up outside a Liverpool hospital with a bomb apparently intended to cause widespread death, was a failed asylum seeker who should not have been here. Emad Al Swealmeen lost his case in 2015 but was able to try again in 2017 under a false name Dominic Casciani is BBC News' Home and Legal Correspondent.