Liverpool bomber had asylum claim rejected six years before attack

New details raise questions about why Emad al-Swealmeen was not pursued for deportation in 2015

The Liverpool bomber had an asylum claim rejected on multiple grounds six years before he attempted to detonate a homemade explosive outside a hospital, court documents show.

Emad al-Swealmeen, 32, was killed when the bomb he was carrying exploded inside a taxi outside Liverpool women's hospital on Remembrance Sunday last year.