The Liverpool Women's Hospital bomber was granted a National Insurance number four years after having his first bid for asylum rejected.
Emad Al Swealmeen’s application to the Department for Work and Pensions was approved even though years earlier it was ruled he could not stay in the UK .
The decision could have made it easier for him to build the lifestyle that allowed him to plot and fund the ball bearing-filled device that came close to killing expectant mums and their babies, the Liverpool Echo reports.
The ECHO can reveal Al Swealmeen was handed a National Insurance number by the DWP in November 2019. At the time, he was living in specialist asylum accommodation in the Kensington area of Liverpool.
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