(ITV) Morocco-born killer Ahmed Alid came to the UK to seek asylum having drifted around Europe for years.
The former pastry chef and shop owner, convicted of randomly murdering a pensioner walking in Hartlepool town centre, told jurors during his trial he had been jailed in Germany for entering the country without a passport or visa.
The 45-year-old was born in Fez, Morocco, but was raised in Algeria, where his grandfather had a business.
He left North Africa in 2007, telling Teesside Crown Court via an Arabic interpreter how his shop had been monitored by the intelligence services who were “harassing” him.
He arrived in Spain and moved around the continent for years, spending time in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Austria, never gaining asylum.
