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Abdul Shokoor Ezedi, 35, has not been seen since Wednesday
Officers are using “all the resources at their disposal” to find Clapham corrosive liquid assault suspect Abdul Shokoor Ezedi, the policing minister has instructed BBC News.
Chris Philp warned “no one must be harbouring this man or offering him any kind of protection”.
It comes as the manhunt for the 35-300 and sixty five days-extinct suspected of hurting a mother and two girls reaches its sixth day.
A £20,000 reward is in tell for information leading to his arrest.
The 31-300 and sixty five days-extinct mother who remains sedated in correctly being facility may per chance additionally lose her perceive in her factual sight following the assault on Wednesday, police mentioned on Monday.
As the search involving hundreds of officers continues, counter-terrorism officers had been drafted in to wait on scour hundreds of hours of CCTV.
Mr Philp entreated someone with information to contact police directly.
He mentioned: “Obviously he himself has disfigured his face. He is terribly recognisable.”
The minister’s feedback reach after a particular person changed into arrested on Monday on suspicion of assisting an perpetrator.
The 22-300 and sixty five days-extinct arrested in London has since been bailed.
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Police bear released a CCTV image of Ezedi leaving Tower Hill tube accumulate 22 situation
The Metropolitan Police mentioned the most most up-to-date sighting of Ezedi changed into at about 21:50 GMT cease to Southwark Bridge on Wednesday, nevertheless there may be not any recommendation he jumped in the River Thames.
Police bear two main hypotheses about Ezedi’s whereabouts: that he has reach to a pair ruin; or that any individual is looking after him.
Detectives are trawling via hundreds of hours of CCTV from Transport for London and tracked Ezedi’s movements on the Tube network via his bank card, which changed into final worn on Wednesday, police mentioned.
They are also chasing up leads bought from hundreds of of us which bear contacted police.
Police imagine Ezedi, who is from the Newcastle accumulate 22 situation nevertheless believed to bear travelled to the UK on a lorry from Afghanistan in 2016, isn’t the daddy of the young of us, extinct eight and three, injured in the assault and changed into in the capital visiting the mummy.
Officers are trying to place how lengthy Ezedi and the girl bear known one but any other and what form of relationship they’d.
Ezedi travelled to London from Newcastle in the early hours of Wednesday before the assault took tell out of doors a Clapham resort in Lessar Avenue at 19:25.
The mummy and two girls were injure after the substance changed into thrown at them.
Ezedi then tried to power away from the scene, crashing into a stationary vehicle and fleeing on foot.
Five Met Law enforcement officers were also injured as they replied to the assault, as were four participants of the overall public who tried to wait on.
The suspect changed into then picked up on CCTV at a Tesco store in Caledonian Road, Islington, north London, at 20:38.
At 21:00, he changed into seen on digicam entering King’s Infamous underground accumulate 22 situation and boarding a southbound Victoria line train.
He arrived at Victoria Space in central London at 21:10 and altered trains to scramble eastbound on the District line at 21:16, police mentioned.
Ezedi changed into seen leaving Tower Hill underground accumulate 22 situation about a minutes later. Essentially the most up-to-date sighting reveals him walking on Allhallows Lane, in the Southwark Bridge accumulate 22 situation, at 21:47.
The BBC has confirmed Ezedi changed into convicted of a sexual offence in 2018.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) mentioned he changed into sentenced on 9 January 2018 after pleading responsible to 1 payment of sexual assault and one in all exposure.
He changed into given a suspended sentence at Newcastle Crown Courtroom and assign on the Sex Perpetrator Register for 10 years.
Ezedi changed into later granted asylum after two failed attempts. He changed into allowed to discontinue in the country after a priest confirmed he had converted to Christianity.
The Catholic Church covering the North East of England has previously confirmed Ezedi changed into a consumer of a charitable challenge it ran which “assists a broad differ of of us that prolong to us in need”.
In an substitute on Monday, the equivalent church organisation mentioned: “After checking local parish records and central records and after consulting with clergy we haven’t any indication that Abdul Ezedi changed into bought into the Catholic religion in this diocese or that a Catholic priest of this diocese gave him a reference.
“We finish not know which Christian church bought him nor which Christian minister gave him a reference.”
Speaking to reporters on Monday, High Minister Rishi Sunak wouldn’t be drawn on whether immigration authorized guidelines must be changed after stories claiming non secular conversions will be being worn to bolster asylum applications.
