How did this killer asylum seeker hoodwink the authorities?

In 2018, a 16-year-old boy called Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai shot dead two men in Serbia with a burst of eighteen bullets from a Kalashnikov automatic rifle. Four years later he murdered again – inflicting a fatal stab wound on 21-year-old Thomas Roberts. Roberts, whose ambition was to join the Royal Marines, was killed because he had tried to break up an argument between Abdulrahimzai and another man on a street in Bournemouth. 

Abdulrahimzai was yesterday found guilty of murder. During the trial, consultant forensic psychiatrist Dr Gauruv Malhan said the defendant exhibited characteristics consistent with borderline personality disorder. After the verdict, Abdulrahimzai was described by the Crown Prosecution Service as a ‘violent and dangerous man’. He made money in England by street fighting, pocketing £100 a bout. 

Despite his many personality flaws, Abdulrahimzai hoodwinked the UK authorities, arriving in Britain in 2019 having been refused asylum in Norway. The Afghan, convicted by a Serbian court in absentia for the 2018 murder (which was reportedly linked to a migrant trafficking network) crossed the Channel in a ferry from Cherbourg and, on arrival in England, claimed he was 14.