Convicted of Murder, Afghan Asylum Seeker Who Claimed to Be a Child Had Killed Before in Serbia

Killer claimed Taliban murdered his parents and tortured him for three months

A still from a CCTV video of Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai, who stabbed to death a young man in a Subway restaurant, on a bus in Bournemouth, England, shortly before the murder, on March 11, 2022. Dorset Police

An Afghan asylum seeker who claimed he was 16 when he was actually 21, has been found guilty of murdering a young man in England, but it has emerged that he was also convicted in absentia of a double murder in Serbia.

Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai faces a mandatory life sentence after a jury at Salisbury Crown Court convicted him on Monday of the murder of 21-year-old Thomas Roberts in a Subway sandwich shop in the English seaside resort of Bournemouth on March 12, 2022.