A police investigation has revealed that a man who was killed by his own homemade bomb outside a hospital had a grievance against the British state because his asylum request was denied. Emad Al Swealmeen’s device exploded in a taxi outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital on November 14, 2021, causing his death. Counter-Terrorism Policing North West said his grievance connected with his mental health caused him to carry out the attack. The report stated that it was “most likely” that Al Swealmeen’s grievance had “compounded his mental ill health, which, in turn, fed that grievance, and ultimately a combination of those factors led him to undertake the attack.”
Det Supt Andy Meeks suggested that Al Swealmeen had intended to enter the hospital and detonate his device, but it exploded earlier than anticipated. The report also mentioned that Al Swealmeen had made great efforts to remain in the United Kingdom, even converting to Christianity, despite his conversion’s authenticity being disputed. His asylum claim was rejected, and his mental health deteriorated concurrently with developments in his case.
Merseyside Police uncovered mixing bowls and bags of chemicals inside a flat in Rutland Avenue that Al Swealmeen had rented with the “sole purpose” of building the bomb. Two other addresses where he lived uncovered evidence of Al Swealmeen making unfinished improvised firearms. Officers also found a mobile phone containing instructions on how to make explosives, although subsequent searches of his mobile phones revealed that he had concealed his intentions adequately and that the authorities could “never truly know why Al Swealmeen took the actions that he did that led to the explosion.”
Merseyside Police’s Assistant Chief Constable Jon Roy praised the Liverpool public’s response to the bombing, saying that they had been “strong and determined and unbowed in the face of adversity.
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