The Liverpool suicide bomber who officials suspect converted to Christianity to aid his asylum application went to the mosque ‘all day, every day’ at the time he began building his bomb it has emerged.
Emad Al Swealmeen, who was baptised and confirmed at the city’s Anglican cathedral in 2017, was seen worshipping with Muslims during Ramadan and praying with friends.
Immigration sources said today that Al Swealmeen used a false identity and multiple appeals to ‘frustrate’ attempts to remove him from the UK before he tried to kill women and babies on Remembrance Sunday.
Police believe Al Swealmeen, 32, had planned an attack for seven months and began buying components for his suicide vest after he began renting a flat in Rutland Avenue in April, which he then turned into a bomb factory.
Investigators are said to have admitted that the device would have caused ‘damage, death and destruction’ on a massive scale, but they ‘go lucky’ when the unstable device’s detonator went off and killed him as he was ‘jostled’ when the taxi pulled up at the Liverpool Women’s Hospital.
Police are yet to indicate whether they have found evidence that Al Swealmeen conspired with or was inspired by a terror group, suggesting he was a ‘lone wolf’ who became radicalised online during lockdown.
A security source said to the Telegraph: ‘Methodology wise this attack is entirely jihadist, but we have an open mind as to what precisely was motivating him. If he built a much more destructive device then the detonation looks accidental. It looks lucky’.
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