Campaigners and MPs have condemned the catalogue of failures that allowed a mentally ill asylum seeker to roam the streets before he slashed a stranger 30 times.
In a case that highlights some of the worst fears over the Channel migrant crisis, Ibrahim Albashir, who was refused asylum in France after spending six months at a mental hospital, turned to people smugglers to cross from Calais.
By February 2024, the Sudanese man, who has catatonic schizophrenia, was at a hostel in Birmingham in accommodation understood to have been provided by the Home Office.
Chris Philp, Shadow Home Secretary, said: ‘It’s shameful that France
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