(ITV) The government has come under pressure to explain how a refugee suspected of launching a chemical substance attack on a mother and her children was granted asylum after being convicted of a sex offence.
Police are hunting Abdul Ezedi, 35, after a mother was left with potentially life-changing injuries following the corrosive alkaline substance attack in Clapham on Wednesday evening.
A 31-year-old woman, believed to be known to Ezedi, was with her daughters — aged three and eight — at the time when they were attacked. The mother remains in hospital while her daughters have been discharged.
Four others — some of whom rushed to help the victims — were also injured, as well as five police officers.
