Abdul Shokoor Ezedi: What do we know of Clapham attack suspect?

By Harrison Jones

BBC Data

Because the manhunt for Abdul Shokoor Ezedi continues, what do we know concerning the suspect within the alkali attack in Clapham, south London?

The convicted intercourse offender, idea to be from Afghanistan, has been described by police as a “dreadful particular person”.

He’s known to personal arrived within the UK by lorry in 2016 and modified into as soon as granted asylum in 2020 after three attempts.

Ezedi is believed to personal been living in Newcastle, where in 2018 he had been convicted of one fee of sexual assault and one of publicity.

Now 35, he received a 9-week jail term suspended for 2 years for the sexual assault and, for the publicity, 36 weeks’ imprisonment to be served consecutively, additionally suspended for 2 years.

The sentence for the sexual offence incorporated an unpaid work expose.

As soon as that modified into as soon as entire in 2020, Ezedi modified into as soon as discharged from probation supervision.

Locals personal instructed the BBC that he had been working in a pizza store shut to Newcastle.

Yaya, the proprietor of Sultan Supermarket in Byker, Newcastle, acknowledged that he final saw Ezedi in his store on Tuesday.

“He regarded fashioned and relaxed and in fashioned modified into as soon as continuously respectful and polite. He worked six or seven days in a pizza store at the abet of the counter,” Yaya outlined.

“I modified into as soon as jumpy. He modified into as soon as working laborious.”

Itsy-bitsy is known about Ezedi’s life earlier than his arrival within the UK in 2016.

Later that year, he first applied for asylum and modified into as soon as refused.

His philosophize modified into as soon as refused a 2d time at an unknown date. On this application, he acknowledged he had converted to Christianity, meaning he would personal been at possibility if he returned to Afghanistan.

Ezedi appealed against this Dwelling Office decision and a tribunal overturned it in 2020, having heard from a church explore who acknowledged he believed that Ezedi had converted to Christianity.

In an substitute after Wednesday’s attack, police acknowledged they believed Ezedi had travelled down to London from Newcastle.

On Friday, Cdr Jon Savell added that the suspect had left Newcastle within the “very, very early hours” of Wednesday morning and he or his automobile were later viewed within the Tooting, Croydon and Streatham areas of London, earlier than getting to Clapham.

Metropolitan Police detectives mediate he is known to the family injured by the corrosive substance on Lessar Avenue, Clapham, however acknowledged they were not but definite on their proper relationship.

On Thursday afternoon, police released an image exhibiting the suspect with what they described as “fundamental” and “distinctive” injuries round the exquisite aspect of his face.

He had tried to stir the scene in a Hyundai automobile however crashed into a stationary automobile, earlier than continuing his stir on foot.

Police roar Ezedi boarded a put collectively at Clapham South tube place of dwelling at 19:33, and by 20:00 he modified into as soon as at King’s Unpleasant place of dwelling.

He modified into as soon as viewed in north London a miniature after 20:forty five on Wednesday evening, with a image exhibiting him in a Tesco Explicit store on Caledonian Boulevard, the Met acknowledged.

Cdr Savell outlined on Friday that Ezedi modified into as soon as additionally viewed taking a Victoria Line tube heading south at 21:00.

The public personal been entreated to not system Ezedi and to as a replacement call 999.

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