A Catholic church gave the Clapham chemical attacker £25 per week and described him as a “pleasant, friendly and co-operative man”, court documents have revealed.
A project worker at the Catholic diocese of Hexham and Newcastle’s Justice and Peace Refugee Project, which hands out food and toiletries to asylum seekers, wrote a letter corroborating Abdul Ezedi’s attendance at the church. The letter was used in his application for asylum as part of evidence to show that he was a genuine Christian convert.
The documents were published on Tuesday after The Times and other media outlets fought for them to be released. Ezedi attacked a mother and her two children with a corrosive alkali substance in Clapham, south London, having driven from his home in Newcastle
