How he kept slipping the net

August 2014: Hani Khalaf arrives in Kent after stowing away in a lorry. He tells immigration officials he is Ali Nagieb Abu Mahir, aged 18 and from Syria, as he claims asylum.

Over the next two years he is arrested at least six times for petty offences as he sleeps rough in a park and steals sandwiches to survive.

August 10, 2016: Arrested for shoplifting at Superdry in London’s Regent Street, he gives police the same false name he has given immigration officials and is released on bail by magistrates.

August 11, 2016: Khalaf murders Jairo Medina in Hyde Park before trying to sell his mobile phone and gambling his cash away.

August 16, 2016: Khalaf is arrested for fare evasion and released.

August 18, 2016: He is arrested for shoplifting and taken to a police station where an officer recognises him from CCTV of a suspect. DNA confirms he is the killer.