The Belfast knife attack suspect was granted asylum in Britain under a controversial ‘fast-track’ scheme, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Hadi Alodid was given permission to stay here after completing a 10-page Home Office questionnaire rather than undergoing the standard – and far more rigorous – face-to-face interview process.
It prompted new calls to re-think the ‘streamlined’ programme set up when Rishi Sunak was prime minister as part of his pledge to clear a backlog of 92,000 asylum cases.
Then home secretary Suella Braverman and immigration minister Robert Jenrick – who have both since defected to Reform – oversaw the introduction of the scheme.
It was privately described within the Home Office as the ‘grant factory’, in reference to the huge numbers of asylum seekers granted refugee status.
Asylum seekers from countries like Sudan were allowed to access the streamlined system – reducing the backlog – because the vast majority of their claims were eventually granted in any case due to conflict in their home nations.
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Four months later, in June 2023, it was extended to Sudanese nationals and Alodid was granted a five-year refugee visa in September that year.
His case was dealt with under the fast-track scheme, it is understood.
Known as the ‘Streamlined Asylum Process’, or SAP, it was also open to Eritreans, Syrians, Afghans, Libyans and Yemenis.
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A Daily Mail analysis of latest Home Office data shows the number of asylum claims from Sudanese nationals has soared from 2,853 in 2022 to 5,112 last year.
In the year to March, 95 per cent of Sudanese asylum claims where the Home Office made an initial decision – more than 5,503 main applicants – were granted.
Meanwhile, the number of Sudanese coming here by small boat and then claim asylum has nearly tripled from 1,525 in 2022 to 4,537 last year – as migrants know that under the SAP scheme they are almost certain to be handed refugee status.
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Alodid was able to cross from the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland thanks to the Common Travel Area (CTA), which means there are no identity checks on travellers.
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He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘It does raise the question if certain countries are more likely either to commit very serious offences or to get involved in state threat activity, do we need to start thinking about migration now not simply in terms of the economy or housing but also in terms of national security?’
He added: ‘At the moment there are people who happen to be black and brown but are as British as you or me who probably feel they can’t go about their business. That is destabilising to the nation.’
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