Scrolling through a check-list on his mobile phone, the latest asylum seeker to set foot in Britain asked me where he could exchange his foreign currency.
The 25-year-old man from the Middle East had just arrived by bus at Belfast Grand Central Station through a backdoor route from the Republic of Ireland to the United Kingdom.
He had flown from Germany to Dublin Airport, before boarding the Translink X1 bus service to Northern Ireland.
I was on the bus, retracing the two-hour journey believed to have been used by Hadi Alodid, the Sudanese man charged with the attempted murder of Stephen Ogilvie, 44, who lost an eye and suffered life-changing injuries in a knife attack in Belfast.
Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/11/witnessed-latest-migrant-making-mockery-britain-borders/
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