Social media posts claimed the attacker was a man called Ali Al-Shakati, a Muslim asylum seeker who arrived in the UK on a small boat last year and was on an MI6 watchlist. None of it was true.

The name of the suspect arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of three children in Southport is Ali Al-Shakati. Eight other children and two adults were also injured in the knife attack on 29 ...

A court heard that Mark Heath repeatedly posted false claims that the offender behind the attacks was an asylum seeker named Ali Al Shakati on X. He denied publishing "threatening, abusive or ...