This story has been reported in the Press after a recent trial at Salisbury Crown Court. In March 2022 a 21-year-old local man Thomas Roberts was on a night out with friends in Bournemouth and an argument about an e-scooter developed outside a  Subways sandwich bar. An Afgan asylum seeker Lawangean  Abdulrahimzai pulled out a large knife and fatally stabbed Thomas.  

Abdulrahimzai then ran off, buried the knife, and burnt the clothes he was wearing, later he was tracked down, arrested, and convicted. He had previously posed on social media with a 10-inch blade. Why was this post not picked up by the monitors of social media?

 Abdulrahimzai  came to the UK in Dec 19 with no ID claiming to be under 16. He was placed with foster parents in Poole. We now know he lied about his age. It is worth noting that your true age can in fact be measured with a wrist X-ray. This doesn’t seem to me a difficult step to take with all unaccompanied arrivals who claim to be children.

It has now come to light that he had previously murdered 2 people in Serbia.  I wrote to my MP expressing my concerns, about allowing people like this into the UK with no ID,  men who are murderers trying to escape justice. This has to stop!

This is probably not the first case and sadly it won’t be the last . It is madness to house Asylum seekers in popular seaside towns. They are now occupying about 3 major hotels in Bournemouth, and there are plans afoot to rehouse them in the suburbs.

The Government are quite happy to foot the bill. The Hotel owners are making money hand over fist as the Hotels are fully occupied. Bournemouth is now looking like an open refugee camp with men wandering around in 2s and 3s, looking like they have won the lottery.

A simple wrist X-ray to confirm age is a procedure that should be implemented without delay!

Our thoughts go out to the family of Thomas Roberts.

Dr. Steven Bick

UK Independence Party – Spokesman for NHS