Liverpool hospital bomber Emad Al Swealmeen may have faked conversion, inquest told

Emad Al Swealmeen said that he had converted to Christianity but a Quran and prayer mat were found at his flat
Emad Al Swealmeen said that he had converted to Christianity but a Quran and prayer mat were found at his flat
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The terrorist who blew himself up in a failed attack on Liverpool women’s hospital had a prayer mat and a copy of the Quran at home, suggesting that his conversion to Christianity was designed to secure asylum in the UK, an inquest was told.

Emad Al Swealmeen, 32, died when a bomb he was carrying partially detonated in the back of a taxi outside the hospital shortly before 11am on Remembrance Sunday last month.

Al Swealmeen, who was born in Iraq and had failed in an asylum application after claiming to have converted to Christianity, had constructed the homemade bomb with “murderous intent”, a coroner at Liverpool and Wirral coroner’s court said today.

The inquest was told that Al Swealmeen came to the country