COPS searching for missing three-year-old William Tyrrell have found a mysterious bag they believe could lead to finding the young boy's remains. William \- whose been dubbed ...Australia's Madeleine McCann... \- vanished in broad daylight from his foster grandparents' New South Wales garden in 2014.
PAPolice are confident the bag will lead to William's remains '/ ' 
PAThe green nylon bag was found in one of three sites of interest '/ ' Cops now believe an old hessian bag found buried in William's late foster grandmother's home could provide a clue to the boy's whereabouts. Cops unearthed the green nylon bag this week while searching one of three new locations and said it could take months to find his remains. The vital piece of evidence was discovered near a tree trunk which was marked as a point of interest by anthropologist Dr Penny McArdle. It's the sixth clue police have found since raiding the property on Monday. A police spokesman said investigators are removing 15-30cms of dirt ...over the entire one kilometre square dig site... and remain confident William's body ...will be in there.... The spokesman added: ...Between half a foot and a foot down and once they get down through the top soil into the orangey clay they know that's well into seven years down. ...They are scraping back seven years of dirt.... It comes as cops uncovered two pieces of fabric earlier in a creek-bed near the property. According to the Daily Mail, one piece was a blue-coloured strip of fabric around 8cm X 8cm. A NEW SUSPECT Cops have been scouring the New South Wales property for new clues weeks after revealing they had a new suspect in the long-running mystery. Detective Chief Inspector David Laidlaw said further information had come to light after a review of materials gathered by investigators since William's disappearance seven years ago. He said: "As our team continue to conduct inquiries and explore all avenues of investigation, our focus has been identifying if anything has been missed, or if there are any details – no matter how small – that need to be clarified. "Police remain committed to finding out what happened to William, but our most important job here is to bring him home for both families." William was just three years old when he vanished while playing with his sister on September 12, 2014. He was in the care of foster parents who took him on a visit to the coastal town of Kendall, New South Wales, on the day he disappeared. His parents went inside to make a cup of tea while William and his sister played hide and seek outside. When they returned five minutes later the toddler had vanished. William's biological grandmother \- who has not been named \- told local news the investigation has been ...shambolic.... She said: ...The foster care people, they knew everything and we knew nothing. ...We were just having a little picnic \- out jumps the foster care mother… and starts giving the kids lollipops and Kinder Surprises. ...So she was just like watching what's going on. ...My son used to always say he was too scared to love his kids… he was too scared to love them for an hour of supervised visits. ...He's not alive. I knew he wasn't alive for the last seven years. So, I'm just scared.... Police said William's foster parents are persons of interest and are offering a £538,000 reward for new information. 
NSW PoliceWilliam Tyrrell went missing seven years ago '/ ' 
PAPolice have conducted multiple digs across the New South Wales property '/ ' 
PACops say William's foster parents are persons of interest in the investigation '/ ' Source:
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BPMThe park in West London where the walker was fined '/ ' She saw the officer speaking to two walkers next to the park's pond who had put some bread onto the grass to feed the birds, reports MyLondon. She claims he then dealt one of them with a £150 fine. In a Facebook group for Hanwell and Ealing residents, she wrote: ...Warning. Enforcement officers are fining people for feeding the ducks in Walpole park.... The news shocked residents who believe that "Ealing Council have bigger fish to fry." One said: ...How do we register our contempt for this insulting extortion of £150 a time \- with Ealing Council.... A second added: ...One minute you can feed the ducks bread and the next you can't. Most read in News FOOTIE HORROR Football fan fighting for life with head injury after QPR vs Luton 'disorder' WINTER OF DISCONTENT Europe Covid epicentre faces lockdown in DAYS - how does UK compare? 'LIVING IN TERROR' Masked gang threatened to kill us & smashed my car with baseball bats OFF THE STREETS Child killer Colin Pitchfork arrested after 'approaching girls on walks' PRIDE OF PLACE Grinning Prince Andrew pic kept as 'trophy' by Jeffrey Epstein in paedo lair 'TREATED LIKE SLAVES' I worked for Amazon in a 'cage' and was pressured not to use the loo "For an age ducks, swans etc have been fed bread by animal lovers and it doesn't seem to have done them any harm. Better for people to feed them than go hungry.... A third replied: ...If the ducks and wildlife are not fed (and there are other options than bread) they will die. "There are three growing ducklings in Walpole. I'm disgusted with this.... Meanwhile another joked: ...Good to see the council have ample funding to punish the perpetrators of this serious crime. "Them duck feeders really bringing down the tone of the area!... An Ealing Council spokesperson said: "We have spoken with our contractors and they confirmed a single fixed penalty notice was issued to an individual who tipped a bag of bread onto the grass in Walpole Park and then walked away. ...This type of behaviour attracts vermin, so it is discouraged. "Although throwing food in the water is also an offence under Section 87 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, we have spoken to our contractor to ensure they don't fine people for this unless it is clearly littering. "The Wildfowl Wetlands Trust provides advice on the feeding of water birds, as an over reliance on a 'bread' diet can cause physical harm to the wildlife. 
MEN MediaHe died in his mother's arms earlier this month '/ ' The tot was born prematurely at 28 weeks on December 16, 2020, and suffered from a number of illnesses which meant he was only able to spend four and a half weeks of his life at home. At birth, he was diagnosed with chronic lung disease, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary vein stenosis and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease. During his fourth heart surgery in Leeds hospital, doctors found an internal bleed on his lungs \- which caused them to collapse and fill with liquid. Over the course of five weeks his condition worsened \- and on November 8 he passed away in his mother's arms. Now his parents, Richard Allen, 36, and Sian Jakeman, 34, have paid tribute to their "happy boy". Most read in News FOOTIE HORROR Football fan fighting for life with head injury after QPR vs Luton 'disorder' WINTER OF DISCONTENT Europe Covid epicentre faces lockdown in DAYS - how does UK compare? 'LIVING IN TERROR' Masked gang threatened to kill us & smashed my car with baseball bats OFF THE STREETS Child killer Colin Pitchfork arrested after 'approaching girls on walks' PRIDE OF PLACE Grinning Prince Andrew pic kept as 'trophy' by Jeffrey Epstein in paedo lair 'TREATED LIKE SLAVES' I worked for Amazon in a 'cage' and was pressured not to use the loo Richard told GrimsbyLive: ...The past year has been very difficult and it's hard to specify how we both felt during that time. ...When he was on the Grimsby Rainforest ward it wasn't so bad, but it was when he was in Leeds or Sheffield that we really struggled. ...As well, Sian is suffering from chronic kidney disease and has dialysis three times a week, which is something we've had to adjust to over the past 12 months too. ...After being told of our son's passing, we were both, and still are, absolutely devastated. ...He was such a happy smiley boy, you would have never known that he had all these health problems when you spent time with him. ...I think that made everything harder to accept if I'm honest." Friends and family have now set up a gofundme page to raise money for funeral costs. Richard added: ...We were told multiple times, by multiple consultants that he wouldn't survive, but the fact he kept on fighting and made it home for those four weeks made it so much more difficult. ...Some members of our family never getting to meet him due to his condition and the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic restricting visiting also made things extremely hard. ...I would want him to be remembered as a happy boy who kept on fighting through to the very end.... 
Family members are raising money for his funeral 
TiktokThe account used to spread the ISIS videos has been operating for 18 months '/ ' One of the videos posted this week urged supporters to launch mass-casualty terrorist attacks in the West during the Christmas holidays. The video features moody background sounds and starts by describing Christmas as "the celebration of the Kufar 'non-Muslims ' & Crusaders. "They do not believe in Allah, and they make fun of the sacred. "They are Shaytan 'Devil ' slaves." After showing scenes of Christmas markets and celebrations, the narrator adds chillingly: "Prepare yourself, O soldier of Allah to shed the blood of these Kufar." It called for people to become suicide bombers, adding "enter the crowds disguised in their clothes." They tell them to bring hidden explosives and to ...explode it and plant panic and terror in their hearts.... The account used to spread the ISIS videos has been operating for 18 months which has been watched thousands of times. Most read in News FOOTIE HORROR Football fan fighting for life with head injury after QPR vs Luton 'disorder' WINTER OF DISCONTENT Europe Covid epicentre faces lockdown in DAYS - how does UK compare? 'LIVING IN TERROR' Masked gang threatened to kill us & smashed my car with baseball bats OFF THE STREETS Child killer Colin Pitchfork arrested after 'approaching girls on walks' PRIDE OF PLACE Grinning Prince Andrew pic kept as 'trophy' by Jeffrey Epstein in paedo lair 'TREATED LIKE SLAVES' I worked for Amazon in a 'cage' and was pressured not to use the loo An investigation found dozens of ISIS accounts on TikTok, including a woman in a burka who posted an apparent surveillance video of buildings and structures in Germany, with a that said: "May Allah accept you into Paradise". Ominously, the video starts with a regular electronic beeping noise followed by the sound of police sirens. Her biographical information said: "A lion fights for its prey until it has it and turns its enemies into its flock". The use of TikTok to spread deadly propaganda indicates that the terror group is looking to recruit impressionable young people as so-called "clean skins" to carry out suicide bombings in Europe. The UK terror threat level has been upped to "severe" since the car bomb attack in Liverpool and fears that more "lone wolf" attackers may be waiting to pounce after self-radicalising during the Covid lockdowns. Police in Milan in Italy announced on Wednesday that they had arrested a 19-year-old woman on suspicion of involvement in international terrorism. Her phone included videos of beheadings and other material produced by the propaganda wing of ISIS, plus a photo of a young man who is believed to have blown himself up outside Kabul airport in August, killing 183 people. 
Last week saw a car bomb attack in Liverpool 
TiktokIt describes Christmas as ...the celebration of the Kufar 'non-Muslims ' & Crusaders.' '/ ' 
ABCInside officers found garbage strewn around the filthy home '/ ' Police responded to the Turpin home in Perris, California on January 14, 2018, after Jordan escaped the home via a window in January 2018 and told a police operator ...my two little sisters right now are chained up.... She went on to say her parents, David and Louise Turpin, had been violently abusing and starving their 13 children for years. In a special ABC report on the family, bodycam footage of the moment police first arrived on the scene to find a panic-stricken Jordan standing by the side of the road has been released for the first time. A sheriff's deputy, who was nearing the end of his shift, is heard greeting Jordan as he steps out of his patrol car, saying: ...Hi, Jordan. What's going on?... ...I just ran away from home and I live in a family of 15,... the teen, who looks and sounds far younger than 17, is heard telling him. ...My two little sisters right now are chained up… they stole mother's food.... She added: "We live in filth, and sometimes I wake up and I can't breathe because of how dirty the house is. We never take baths." Most read in The Sun DALES RACE PROBE Emmerdale rocked by race probe involving two of ITV soap's leading stars 'TOTAL SHOCK' Jorgie Porter reveals heartbreak at miscarrying quads at 14 weeks IT'S OL OVER Solskjaer has managed FINAL GAME for Man Utd & will be sacked after Watford SHORELY NOT I used benefits to pay for my cosmetic surgery - I'm too famous to have a job WINTER OF DISCONTENT Europe Covid epicentre faces lockdown in DAYS - how does UK compare? ALL GROWN UP Britain's Got Talent star George Sampson unrecognisable 13 years after show Officers then knocked on the door of the house for more than two minutes before parents David and Louise Turpin answered. Louise can be heard saying they were in bed as cops informed her they were there for a welfare check after her daughter called them. Once inside, officers found mounds of garbage, feces, moldy food. They also found dirty, pale and extremely skinny kids. In one filthy bedroom, a cop discovered two frail girls, bruised and caked in dirt. 
ABCThe officers discovered two starved girls '/ ' 
Bruises were fond on this little girl's arm "Hi sweetheart. Hi girls. Can I see your wrists?," the officer can be heard saying. "We're here to help you." Louise can then be heard asking the cops "is that what this is about?" to which the officer replied, "well, that's part of it, definitely". The officers then scrambled to free the children — as they arrested the parents and asked them where to find the key to the chains, the footage showed. The badly abused siblings, ages two to 29, were taken to a hospital where they were fed and cared for. However, the shackles were merely the tip of the iceberg in what had been decades of vile abuse and acts of torture inside the Turpin household. Investigators would later discover that the children were frequently beaten by their twisted parents until they bled, strangle them and permit them to eat just once per day and shower just once a year. 
ABCChildren were found chained to beds '/ ' 
Good Morning AmericaJordan was 17 when she daringly escaped from the Turpin family's house of horrors '/ ' 
ABC 20/20Now 21, she has reflected on her heroics in a special ABC 20/20 report '/ ' The evil couple, who would quote the Bible to justify the frequent beatings, left some of the children tied up for months at a time. The kids lived off bologna and peanut butter sandwiches while their parents gorged themselves on takeaways in front of them. The children weren't allowed to exercise, could only speak when spoken to, and were also banned from socializing with each other. David and Louise tormented the kids by leaving out apple and pumpkin pies that they were forbidden from eating. They also bought the children toys but refused to let them open them. When police entered the home, they believed all of the children were under 18 because of how malnourished they appeared and how young they sounded. However, seven of the 13 children were over 18 at the time. David, then 57, and Louise, 50, were arrested and later sentenced to life in prison for the hideous abuse and imprisonment of their kids. They pleaded guilty to 14 counts including cruelty to an adult-dependent, child cruelty, torture, and false imprisonment. All of the Turpin siblings spent weeks in hospital before six of the siblings were split up into two different foster homes. ...I HAD TO DO IT' Reflecting on her heroics almost four years ago, Jordan said that while she was terrified she knew she had to do something to save her siblings' lives. ...My hands were shaking,... she said through tears of the moment she tried to dial 911. ...I was shaking and I was trying to dial 911 but I couldn't even get my thumb to press the buttons. ...But I was trying to calm down so I could do it, and finally, I pressed it. And when they answered … I'd literally never spoken to someone on the phone. And start saying how we didn't go to school, we lived in filth, how we starve and all this stuff. ...I had to make sure if we left we wouldn't go back and that we'd get the help we need. Because if we went back I wouldn't be sitting here right now.... When asked how she mustered the courage to call the police on her abusive parents, Jordan said: ...I think it was us like coming so close to death so many times and I was worried about my siblings. ...When I saw them worried and crying, I just felt like I had to do it.... Jennifer also revealed how she ...put music on and danced... to celebrate her freedom after waking up in the hospital the day after her parents' arrests. She then went to the park with two of her sisters, reveling in the ...heavenly... taste of their newfound freedom. "I was so excited because I could smell the grass," she said. "I was like, 'How could heaven be better than this? … Oh my gosh, this is so free, this is life.'" "I'm so thankful just to walk… 'to ' take an hour-long walk with my music," she said. "These little things I think… are things that people take for granted." Escape from a House of Horror \- A Diane Sawyer Special Event \- airs on ABC 20/20 on November 19. 
ABCJordan said she scaped to save the lives of her siblings '/ ' 
At the time, the Turpin children ranged in age from two to 29 
AP:Associated PressDavid, then 57, and Louise, 50, were arrested and later sentenced to life in prison for the hideous abuse and imprisonment of their kids '/ ' We pay for your stories! Do you have a story for The US Sun team? Email us at exclusive@the-sun.com or call 212 416 4552. Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TheSunUS and follow us from our main Twitter account at @TheSunUS 
AFPDemonstrators clashed with police as they called for the lockdown to be scrapped '/ ' Protesters chanted ...no to vaccination..., ...enough is enough... and ...down with the fascist dictatorship... and waved Austrian flags as they stream into Heroes' Square. It didn't take long for the crowd \- which swelled to about 35,000 people by mid-afternoon \- to clash with police. They said there had been 10 arrests for breaches of coronavirus restrictions and a ban on Nazi symbols. It comes a day after Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg announced Austria would be plunged into a lockdown from Monday after Covid cases spiked to 1959.88 per 100,000 in the past fortnight. Hours earlier, seven people were injured when Dutch police opened fire on anti-lockdown rioters who were setting streets ablaze. Cops said they fired both ...warning shots... and directly at protesters who were demonstrating against new lockdown measures in Rotterdam on Friday. Most read in The Sun DALES RACE PROBE Emmerdale rocked by race probe involving two of ITV soap's leading stars 'TOTAL SHOCK' Jorgie Porter reveals heartbreak at miscarrying quads at 14 weeks IT'S OL OVER Solskjaer has managed FINAL GAME for Man Utd & will be sacked after Watford SHORELY NOT I used benefits to pay for my cosmetic surgery - I'm too famous to have a job WINTER OF DISCONTENT Europe Covid epicentre faces lockdown in DAYS - how does UK compare? ALL GROWN UP Britain's Got Talent star George Sampson unrecognisable 13 years after show Anti-riot police also fired water cannon to disperse the violent crowd of protesters who began lighting fires and setting off fireworks in one of the port city's main shopping districts. According to local media reports, at least 20 people were arrested. The demonstrations comes a week after the Netherlands re-imposed a partial lockdown to curb surging Covid cases in the country. Videos on social media appear to show a person being shot in Rotterdam \- but it's unclear what happened to them. Police said in a tweet that it was ...still unclear how and by whom... the person was allegedly shot. One eyewitness \- a press photographer \- told De Telegraaf they saw shell casings ...everywhere on the floor.... In a statement, cops confirmed shots were fired but did not elaborate on what type of rounds were used. Police spokesperson Patricia Wessels said: ...We fired warning shots and there were also direct shots fired because the situation was life-threatening. ...We know that at least two people were wounded, probably as a result of the warning shots, but we need to investigate the exact causes further.... Other videos showed burn-out police cars and rioters launching fireworks and rocks at cops. The NL Times reported that a journalist was attacked on the street and local broadcaster Rijnmond said the reporter was beaten and his camera destroyed. Protesters eventually dispersed leaving smouldering police cars and dozens of smashed bicycles in their wake, the AFP reports. Photos in Dutch media showed at least one police car ablaze and another with a bicycle smashed through the windshield. A further clip appears to show a protester fall to the pavement, reportedly after being shot. Police said in a tweet that rioters started fires and threw fireworks during the rioting and authorities closed the city's main railway station. Local media say gangs of soccer hooligans were involved in the rioting. Several hundred people had gathered to voice opposition to government plans to restrict access to indoor venues to people who have a ...corona pass..., showing they have been vaccinated or already recovered from an infection. The pass is also available to people who have not been vaccinated, but have proof of a negative test. Police issued an emergency ordinance in Rotterdam, shutting down public transportation and ordering people to go home. Water cannon were deployed and police on horseback carried out charges to disperse the crowds, police said. Last weekend, the Netherlands re-imposed some lockdown measures for an initial three weeks in an effort to slow a resurgence of coronavirus contagion, but daily infections have remained at their highest levels since the start of the pandemic. The government has said it wants to introduce a law that would allow businesses to restrict the country's coronavirus pass system to only people who are fully vaccinated or have recovered from COVID-19 that would exclude people who test negative. In January, rioting broke out in Rotterdam and other Dutch cities after the government announced a curfew in an attempt to rein in soaring coronavirus infections. Earlier Friday, the government banned fireworks on December 31 for the second straight year. The ban is intended to prevent, as much as possible, extra strain on health care, law enforcement and first responders, the government said Friday. RED ALERT It comes as Europe could face another Christmas lockdown as cases have exploded across the continent. World Health Organization said Europe was the only region in the world where Covid-related deaths increased last week, as Belgium's Prime Minister said the continent was on ...red alert.... Within Europe, the WHO said that the highest number of cases came from Russia, Germany, and the UK. German cases are spiralling in what Chancellor Angela Merkel called a ...dramatic... fourth wave. With the country's hospitals on the brink of collapse, a lockdown could soon come into force which would last until December 15. Merkel has banned unvaccinated Germans from shops and restaurants in draconian Covid restrictions as a string of tougher measures for unjabbed citizens are being enforced \- as well as a tiered restrictions system in a bid to tackle the virus. Meanwhile, Austria is set to plunge back into a nationwide lockdown from Monday as Covid cases soar and hospital corridors fill with dead bodies. Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said the lockdown would run for a ...maximum of 20 days... and imposed a new vaccine mandate. From February 1 next year, all Austrians will also be required to have both jabs, Schallenberg announced. Those who refuse could face heavy fines. Austria registered a whopping 15,145 new Covid cases on Thursday, smashing last November's peak of 9,586 confirmed cases. 
RexRioters in the Netherlands left burnt-out cops cars in their wake '/ ' 
RexPolice confirmed firing ...warning shots' at protesters '/ ' We pay for your stories! Do you have a story for The Sun news desk? Email us at exclusive@the-sun.co.uk or call 0207 782 4104. You can WhatsApp us on 07423 720 250. We pay for videos too. Click here to upload yours. Click here to get The Sun newspaper delivered for FREE for the next six weeks. 
The Poppy Day taxi fanatic admitted to using a fake Jordanian passport and visa to enter the UK in May 2014 But despite ADMITTING using a fake Jordanian passport and visa to enter the UK and having his claim rejected the following year, Al-Swealmeen was still here almost a decade later. And following in the footsteps of other terrorists, the Liverpool Poppy Day plotter was able to game the immigration system with terrifying ease before building his bedsit bomb. After a taxi carrying Al-Swealmeen pulled up outside Liverpool Women's Hospital on Remembrance Sunday, his device accidentally detonated, killing him and injuring the driver David Perry. Counter-terrorism cops and MI5 are investigating a theory that he may have invented an emergency dash to the hospital in order to get closer to a Service of Remembrance at the nearby Liverpool Cathedral, where he converted from Islam to Christianity in 2017. A source told the Daily Telegraph: "Swealmeen didn't book the taxi the night before and when he got in, he asked to be taken quickly to the hospital. He might have deliberately gone somewhere near the cathedral." Today we can reveal astonishing details of Al-Swealmeen's "asylum screening interview" at a Home Office building in Croydon, South London. Most read in The Sun DALES RACE PROBE Emmerdale rocked by race probe involving two of ITV soap's leading stars 'TOTAL SHOCK' Jorgie Porter reveals heartbreak at miscarrying quads at 14 weeks IT'S OL OVER Solskjaer has managed FINAL GAME for Man Utd & will be sacked after Watford SHORELY NOT I used benefits to pay for my cosmetic surgery - I'm too famous to have a job WINTER OF DISCONTENT Europe Covid epicentre faces lockdown in DAYS - how does UK compare? ALL GROWN UP Britain's Got Talent star George Sampson unrecognisable 13 years after show Ravaged by civil war The 35-page dossier reveals how the bomber concocted a sob story, claiming he was from war-torn Syria in a bid to win asylum. Citing "psychological problems", he insisted he would face death if he was not granted refugee status — despite having family in the stable United Arab Emirates. Al-Swealmeen, then 25, had flown into London from the UAE on fake documents just days before his grilling. At the asylum interview, he was given an Arabic translator and asked to declare he would answer all questions "fully and truthfully". The fanatic — whose relatives have now confirmed he was born in Iraq — told the official he was born in Syria and had lived there until he was ten. But he then claimed he had moved to the UAE in 1999, before opting to return to Syria in September 2013. His answers quickly sparked suspicion from the man interviewing him, who asked why anyone would choose to return to a country ravaged by civil war. By then Syria was facing the rise of the ruthless Islamic State regime. Yet Al-Swealmeen insisted he "had to go and see" his parents in Deir ez-Zor, one of the fiercest fighting hotspots, claiming he had not heard from them for a month. Quizzed about his journey, Al-Swealmeen said he had caught a bus from the UAE to the Jordanian border with Syria at Nassib, a 23-hour journey of 1,457 miles. He then claimed he had paid $300 — about £220 — to a border guard to cross into Syria. After that, he said he caught another bus north to Deir ez-Zor, which took "seven to eight hours" including two one-hour stops. Even with no traffic, and travelling at a constant 60mph, the 352-mile trip would take six hours. And sensing Al-Swealmeen was lying, the official asked: "That seems quite quick for such a long journey through a country involved in a civil war. Are you quite sure?" As the interview continued, Al-Swealmeen claimed he had spent three months in the centre of Deir ez-Zor, despite the city being shelled to smithereens. At the time, international observers noted it had been "largely destroyed". Most of Deir ez-Zor's population had fled "after being hammered for months by artillery shells, rockets and bombs". And the "humanitarian toll" was "horrendous" with outbreaks of polio. But incredibly, Al-Swealmeen claimed he still stayed at the family home for three months, surviving by eating food they had "saved". He said his relatives had "praise God" managed to avoid bombardments by being "away" at critical times, adding: "Sometimes they had to go to their grandparents' home to be safe." I had two options — stay and die or use the passport and escape. Emad Al-Swealmeen And, as if primed by the people-smuggling gang that had provided his fake documents, he managed to name local restaurants, mosques, streets, bridges and neighbourhoods. Yet by contrast, Al-Swealmeen could not tell his interrogator which regime was in control of the city when he was there. Asked why he chose to stay despite the dangers, the bomber claimed he had wanted to leave with his family. When they did not have enough money, he paid an "agent" to help smuggle him out of the country in a car in December 2013. From there he went to Jordan then on to the UAE again. The dubious officer asked Al-Swealmeen: "You've been in the UAE since you were ten. Why not stay there after you left Syria on this occasion?" He replied: "I wanted to see if I could help my family to leave." Pressed further, the fanatic then claimed he had only travelled on to the UK because the same people-smuggler had been paid by his dad to "take me to a European country". He then insisted his documents were destroyed, saying that also meant he could not stay there for fear of persecution. The officer told him: "You have an aunt in the UAE so that's not true, is it?" Al-Swealmeen said: "I'm older. I couldn't stay with them forever." The investigator wryly noted he had spent three months in Syria "without any major difficulty," before asking: "Why do you believe you'd die if you returned?" Al-Swealmeen replied: "Death could happen at any time." But the bomber began to falter as he was grilled over how he had finally got into the UK. Challenged over his Jordanian passport and UK visa, Al-Swealmeen tried to claim he had no idea if they were real or forged. Seconds later, asked if he was entitled to Jordanian nationality, he replied: "No." The officer told him: "So therefore you must have known the Jordanian passport was illegal?" Al-Swealmeen claimed he had "no other option". The officer replied: "So you admit to knowingly using deception to obtain a visa to enter the UK?" Al-Swealmeen answered: "No, I didn't have any knowledge." Illegally obtained In increasingly tetchy exchanges, the officer told him to stop "blaming the agent" and answer the question. Finally Al-Swealmeen admitted he had entered on an illegally obtained Jordanian passport. The investigator issued him with a formal "credibility warning", before Al-Swealmeen replied: "I had two options — stay and die or use the passport and escape." The officer replied: "That's not strictly true. At the time of the visa application you were not in Syria — you were in the UAE. So it's not a question of 'stay and die' as you'd left Syria." The officer added: "You lied and used deception to enter the UK. Why should I believe you are from Syria?" Al-Swealmeen replied: "I don't know how to answer." After the Home Office rejected Al-Swealmeen's asylum application in 2015, it is believed he was refused leave to appeal in 2017. A further attempt at claiming asylum was made under the name Enzo Almeni, an alias used by Al-Swealmeen because he liked the racing driver and founder of Ferrari. At one point his accommodation was withdrawn by the Home Office and he resorted to sleeping in a flat above the pizza shop in Sefton, Merseyside, where he worked. We are fixing the broken asylum system. A Home Office spokesperson A Home Office spokesperson said: "We are fixing the broken asylum system. ...The New Plan for Immigration includes a 'one-stop' process where asylum and human rights claims are made and considered together, ahead of any appeal, enabling the quicker removal of those with no right to be in the UK. "The Home Office is urgently looking into how these sensitive documents relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation have been made public." 
Despite the 35-page forensic asylum interview, Al-Swealmeen was still in the UK almost a decade later 
He claimed he was from war-torn Syria in a bid to win asylum 
The fanatic — whose relatives have now confirmed he was born in Iraq — told the official he was born in Syria and had lived there until he was ten PRAY TO STAY IN BRITAIN Ryan Sabey SEVERAL asylum seekers have used Christianity conversion as part of a "Pray to Stay" bid to win their cases in the past few months, we can reveal. Top judges have given four applicants the green light to remain in Britain – as major concerns were raised after Poppy Day bomber Emad Al-Swealmeen claimed he had found the Christian God. The Church of England hit back at suggestions this week that some applicants are gaming the system in an effort to stay in the country. But court documents show a string of cases including a Chinese Buddhist, who switched religions to Christianity, were granted asylum last month. The woman revealed she attended church every Sunday and a Bible study group as part of her effort to remain in the UK. One Iranian Muslim was given a glowing reference by Reverend Hough at Stockport Baptish Church when making their asylum claim. The judges agreed that the minimum six months' attendance and engagement in the services was taken into account. The judges rejected claims the move to Christianity was nothing more than a ploy. However, an Iraqi Muslim who claimed to have converted to Christianity won his asylum case, although an early court ruling rejected his claims to have changed religion. Ben Ryan, the Church of England's Home Affairs Adviser, said this week: "While undoubtedly there are those who believe that seeking membership of the Church will fast-track their asylum claim, there is no evidence this practice is commonly accepted, or even remotely widespread." We pay for your stories! Do you have a story for The Sun news desk? Email us at exclusive@the-sun.co.uk or call 0207 782 4104. You can WhatsApp us on 07423 720 250. We pay for videos too. Click here to upload yours. Click here to get The Sun newspaper delivered for FREE for the next six weeks. 