William Ohanlon News Today

The Home Secretarys stern Easter message to church leaders comes after it emerged a Baptist minister backed Clapham chemical attacker Abdul Ezedis bid to gain asylum.

The Ezedi case is part of a worrying trend. The courts are increasingly overturning Home Office decisions to deny asylum

The 31-year-old is believed to be back with her daughters, aged eight and three, who were also injured after being attacked with a corrosive substance on January 31.

The asylum judge who heard the sex offenders appeal to stay in the UK decided he had not been honest in several aspects of his account.

A video showing Ezedi being laid to rest aired on the BBC last night. His funeral was allegedly held at a mosque in west London before he was given a Muslim burial in east London on March 11.

The previously confidential legal documents reveal more information than ever before about the sex offender.

Individual cases can often tell a story far better than a welter of statistics. The way Abdul Ezedi, who attacked a woman and her children in Clapham, south London, was granted asylum in this country encapsulates everything that is wrong with the system.

Abdul Ezedi's victim spent eight weeks in hospital after she was attacked with a corrosive substance and lost sight in one of her eyes while her young daughters were also injured

The previously confidential legal documents reveal more information than ever before about the sex offender.

Court noted that he had been dishonest in his application but said conversion to Christianity seemed genuine