22 h. ago Syrian asylum seeker followed woman out of nightclub and strangled and sexually assaulted her in 'horrible attack'

The victim was walking home from a night out in the early hours of the morning on May 12 last year when she was attacked by Fawaz Alsamaou.

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42 h. ago Small boat asylum seeker who grabbed woman in nightclub and marched her out to rape her in alleyway faces years in jail

Eid Anwar Fathi Najjar, 20, arrived in the UK illegally on a small boat three years ago and now faces a lengthy prison sentence after being branded 'a sexual predator'.

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3 d. ago Asylum seeker who paid £400 to arrive in small boat stabbed man to death in bank queue

Gurvinder Singh Johal, known locally as 'Danny', was knifed to death in a branch of Lloyd's Bank in May by a failed asylum seeker who was known to police in four countries, a court heard

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5 d. ago Yes, Keir Starmer is Britain’s most unpopular PM ever. That could liberate him | Polly Toynbee

Forget the public vitriol and use the next four years to get things done – first and foremost, whatever it takes to stop ReformWhat hell is the life of politics. Look around that cabinet table: each person is confronted with near impossible-portfolios without the means to do what they know is needed. After another nightmare week, many in the dark watches must ask themselves why the hell they gave their lives to this brutally thankless task.Their inheritance was even more ruinous than feared: they were bequeathed landmines, dishonest traps and gaping holes. Brexit is emerging as even more economically crippling than expected, now losing the exchequer £80bn a year. They are blighted by bad luck: the Trump destroyer landed on their watch. What worse mishap than a prison officer setting free a refused asylum-seeker sex offender? Small boat arrivals feel unstoppable. An unfortunate deputy leadership election right now was bound to give Keir Starmer a bruising. The 11% vote share at the C...

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8 d. ago Channel boat migrant is found guilty of murdering asylum hotel worker after stabbing her to death with a screwdriver

Deng Chol Majek, who claims to be 19 but has no documentation, stabbed Rhiannon Whyte 23 times with a screwdriver as she talked to her best friend on the phone.

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1 week ago Man sent to France under ‘one in, one out’ scheme returns to UK on small boat

Exclusive: Asylum seeker says he made second crossing because he did not feel safe in FranceA man sent back to France under the “one in, one out” scheme has returned to the UK on a small boat, the Guardian has learned.The man, who wants to claim asylum in the UK, and has spoken to the Guardian since coming back, is being held in a UK immigration detention centre and claims to be a victim of modern slavery at the hands of smugglers in northern France. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Fake taxi driver caged after abducting young woman outside nightclub before sickening attack

Mahmoud Kalawizada touched the 22-year-old woman's thigh, put his hand up her skirt, and demanded oral sex on a “traumatic” journey from Stirling to Clackmannanshire.

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2 w. ago Pictured: Egyptian asylum seekers living at migrant hotel who are accused of raping woman, 33, on Brighton beach at 5am after she left nightclub

Karin Al-Danasurt, 20, (pictured) and Ibrahim Alshafe, 35, who both live in the same migrant hotel in West Sussex, appeared at Crawley magistrates' court on Thursday.

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