Abdul Ezedi was granted asylum by a judge who accepted he was a Christian convert despite concerns the sex offender was a liar, court records show

✍️: Flora Thompson and Aine Fox

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Government plans for asylum accommodation will cost tens of millions of pounds more than using hotels, with flagship sites housing hundreds fewer migrants than planned, Whitehall’s spending watchdog has found

✍: Flora Thompson

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Sarah Everard’s killer Wayne Couzens should never have been given a job as a police officer and chances to stop the sexual predator were repeatedly ignored and missed, an inquiry has found

✍️: Flora Thompson & Margaret Davis

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#Breaking The Home Office has been reprimanded by watchdog the UK Statistics Authority after the Government was accused of lying about clearing part of the asylum backlog, with chairman Sir Robert Chote warning that the “episode may affect public trust”

#Breaking Child killer Jon Venables has lost a Parole Board bid to be freed from jail, with the panel ruling that it was “not satisfied that release at this point would be safe for the protection of the public”

The Home Secretary said he “cannot see any credible reason” to question the nation’s track record now after he signed the new deal in Kigali

✍: Flora Thompson, Sam Blewett & David Hughes

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#Breaking Home Secretary James Cleverly has signed a fresh treaty in Kigali with the Rwandan government’s foreign affairs minister Vincent Biruta over the UK’s stalled asylum plan

#Breaking Home Secretary James Cleverly is travelling to Kigali and will sign a new treaty  with Rwanda on Tuesday over the Government’s stalled asylum plan

Negotiations on a new treaty with Rwanda over the UK’s stalled deportation policy are in their final stages, according to the Home Office’s top civil servant

✍️: Flora Thompson
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Necrophiliac killer David Fuller was able to offend for 15 years without being suspected or caught due to “serious failings” at the hospitals where he worked, an inquiry has found.

✍️: Flora Thompson, George Lithgow and Anahita Hossein-Pour

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The Metropolitan Police’s counter-terrorism commander has said it is “testament to the ingenuity” of former soldier Daniel Khalife that there have been no confirmed sightings since he escaped prison

✍️: Josh Payne and Flora Thompson
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#Breaking Nurse Lucy Letby, 33, has been found guilty at Manchester Crown Court of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital

#Breaking Campaigners and asylum seekers have won a Court of Appeal challenge over the Government’s planned Rwanda deportation scheme

#Breaking Thomas Cashman, 34, has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 42 years at Manchester Crown Court for the murder of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel who was shot in her home in Dovecot, Liverpool, last August

The decision comes after one of the UK’s longest-serving prisoners – who changed his surname to Salvador in 2014 – took part in one of the country’s first public parole hearings earlier this month

✍: Flora Thompson

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One of Britain’s most senior police officers has warned that people will be put off joining the service after a damning review exposed shocking behaviour and culture within the Met’s ranks

✍: Flora Thompson

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What have we learned about notorious prisoner Charles Bronson? independent.co.uk/news/uk/michae…

#Breaking MI5 Director General Ken McCallum said he is “profoundly sorry that MI5 did not prevent the attack” in the wake of the findings of the inquiry into the Manchester Arena bombing, adding: “I deeply regret that such intelligence was not obtained.'

#Breaking Home Secretary Suella Braverman said she is “committed” to working with MI5 and the police to “do everything possible” to prevent a repeat of the “horrifying” Manchester Arena terror attack