(BBC) A man who died when his homemade bomb went off outside a hospital had a grievance against the British state because his asylum claim was rejected, a police investigation has found.
Emad Al Swealmeen’s device exploded in a taxi outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital on 14 November 2021.
The 32-year-old was killed, but driver David Perry escaped the blast.
Counter Terrorism Policing North West said his grievance “combined with mental ill health” led to the attack.
The force’s report into the bombing said it was “most likely” that Al Swealmeen’s grievance against the British state for failing to accept his asylum claim 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.”
