Clapham attacker’s first victim says fugitive is ‘danger to women’

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The first victim of the suspected Clapham chemical attacker Abdul Ezedi has spoken of her need to see him caught because the seek for the Met’s most needed enters its seventh day.

Ezedi was accused of grabbing the underside of a girl with out her consent in 2017, in addition to committing a intercourse assault that very same 12 months, in accordance to courtroom paperwork.

The victim informed the Sun newspaper Ezedi shouldn’t have been allowed to stay within the UK.

She additionally blasted a church for giving him a reference which reportedly helped him to achieve asylum on his third try.

“If he’d been jailed for attacking me then surely he would have been deported,” she mentioned.

“But the failings didn’t end there because someone from a church gave him a reference so he could gain asylum.

“Who in their right mind thought that was a good idea when he was on the sex offender register? The world is a mess.

“He’s a danger to women. That’s obvious to everyone.

“It all came flooding back when the story broke of the attack.

“When his photo came up on TV I said out loud, ‘Oh my God look who is on there’.

“I’ve been following it every day in the hope of seeing him arrested – or dead.

“I feel awful saying it, but it’s true.”

Ezedi, believed to be from Afghanistan, was handed a suspended sentence at Newcastle Crown Court on January 9, 2018 after pleading responsible to prices of sexual assault and publicity and was positioned on the intercourse offender register for 10 years and ordered to perform 200 hours of unpaid work.

On Tuesday, police mentioned “painstaking work” by counter terrorism officers – who’re “highly experienced in manhunts and tracking offenders” and have been drafted in to assist scour a whole lot of hours of CCTV – meant Ezedi had now been traced from his last-known place at 9.47pm on Allhallows Lane within the City of London.

At 9.54pm he travelled alongside Upper Thames Street after which into Pauls Walk, passing the City of London School after which in the direction of Blackfriars Bridge.

The most up-to-date sighting is at 10.04pm on January 31 when he handed the Unilever constructing and headed in the direction of Victoria Embankment, the Met mentioned.

They tracked his actions across the Tube community utilizing his financial institution card, however it has not been used since that day.

Retired Detective Superintendent Shabnam Chaudhri informed The Independent: “The police have mentioned they think he may have taken his own life.

“The biggest telling thing about the latest police briefing was they need a mobile or financial footprint in order to track him.

“The last time he used bank stuff was when on CCTV. So either he has jumped in the Thames or he has a very trusted contact here who is allowing him to use their credit card details.”

She added: “Someone has given him a heads up where the victim is in Clapham. I don’t know how but maybe he tracked her phone or lured her somewhere on the pretext of something else.

“Those injuries can be made to look less conspicuous after time. As the days have worn on the fact that she is in a critical state with all the right medical attention and he has nothing. He could have easily collapsed somewhere where he is hidden.

“I’m surprised they don’t have the police dogs out searching the Southwark area.

“After it goes to a week people start to lose faith in the Met thinking they are not doing their job when they really are.

“People move on to other news so the Met’s focus is to keep the public eye on the search.”

A reference from a Baptist chapel within the North East, the place Ezedi was residing, was central to persuading an immigration tribunal that he had transformed to Christianity, the Daily Mail has reported, quoting a authorities supply. This reference helped in his asylum utility, the newspaper mentioned.