THE human torch Glasgow car bomber had pocketed £15,300 of taxpayers' cash to fund his university studies in Britain.

The badly-burned Kafeel Ahmed was handed a £12,300-a-year living grant, plus £3,000 towards tuition fees.

 

Yet, staggeringly, he was NOT studying but on university "leave" when he rammed a blazing Jeep Cherokee into Glasgow's airport terminal a week ago, then set himself on fire.

Ahmed, 27, whose treatment is costing the NHS £5,000 a day as he clings to life with 90 per cent burns, has little chance of survival.

 

A security loophole enabled him to come and go as he pleased in the UK without any vetting.

 

He simply applied by internet for a PhD course at Anglia Ruskin university's department of technology in Chelmsford, Essex. He has a doctorate in aeronautical engineering and was granted a student visa.

Security insiders say the only assessment he faced was a basic college interview. One source said: "Here we have someone accused of plotting to blow up hundreds of people, in two separate attacks in London and Glasgow, who was being funded by the taxpayer.

 

"He had absolutely everything paid for and was given permission to do as he liked. It seems absolutely bonkers."

 

Ahmed, from Bangalore, India, began his studies in computational fluid dynamics at Anglia Ruskin in 2004. He was taken on under a scheme funded by an Education Department research council.

 

Incredibly, Ahmed was able to find another loophole to get a break from studies in a process called "intercollating".

 

This allowed him to keep his visa, despite not actually attending lectures. Instead of returning to the college, he used his free time to launch the airport attack in Glasgow.

 

Last night the university said it could not discuss individual cases.

i think this, plus the stories of eastern europeans claiming and getting benefits that they arnt entitled too (some bint was claiming child allowance for her kids... WHO ARE AT HOME IN POLAND or somewhere) and sending it back!!!!

 

as a taxpayer this is absolutely shocking! :angry:

 

is it any wonder that imigrants are being viewed with distain, some of the buggers are bleeding the country dry... its high time that much tighter curbs were put on immigrants, vetting them much more closely AND STOP PAYING ANY OF THEM A PENNY until they have secured jobs and have contributed to the countries economy for a minimum period of 6 months. (i couldnt claim sick pay for 6 months... why should anyone else get it free?)

its high time that much tighter curbs were put on immigrants, vetting them much more closely AND STOP PAYING ANY OF THEM A PENNY until they have secured jobs and have contributed to the countries economy for a minimum period of 6 months. (i couldnt claim sick pay for 6 months... why should anyone else get it free?)

 

spot on, Rob... quite why ANYONE coming to this country is able to claim ANY money off a state they haven't paid a penny into is ludicrous.

 

At least UK schoolkids who leave school and are unemployed have (hopefully) had a parent, or both parents, contributing something to the state pot - these people are syphoning off money from a pot they haven't contributed to. Wrong on every level... and if this bizarre law was changed - just watch the amount of immigrants seeking haven here plummet.

I am fascinated Rob as to how your suggestions would have stopped 7/7 where EVERY bomber was born and bred in the UK

 

Some of the 21/7 ones were too so just picking on asylum seekers and immigrants is simplistic as it is the born and bred British asians that have been letting off bombs in 90% of cases

I am fascinated Rob as to how your suggestions would have stopped 7/7 where EVERY bomber was born and bred in the UK

 

Some of the 21/7 ones were too so just picking on asylum seekers and immigrants is simplistic as it is the born and bred British asians that have been letting off bombs in 90% of cases

 

thats not the point, the point was that people are migrating here and claiming benefits that they shouldnt be entitled too... and every bomber wasnt born here..

thats not the point, the point was that people are migrating here and claiming benefits that they shouldnt be entitled too... and every bomber wasnt born here..

 

Vic didn't say that though, he said that most were, which is true... And he does have a valid point overall, just picking on the immigrants aint actually gonna solve a damn thing...

And he does have a valid point overall, just picking on the immigrants aint actually gonna solve a damn thing...

 

.... by not giving immigrants money they arnt entitled to 'not solving a damn thing'?... oh well thats ok then innit... let taxes go up more and more, lets be the hand out country of europe <_<.

 

it isnt about 'solving' anything, its about ABUSE of our welfare system, why tf should ANYBODY get anything that they arnt entitled to?... like them polish bints who have been comming here claiming benefits for their kids.... WHO ARE AT HOME IN POLAND.. that is totally unexceptable. and im not on about only migrants, however that was the theme of the header. dont get me wrong, im against systematic abuse from all quarters.

.... by not giving immigrants money they arnt entitled to 'not solving a damn thing'?... oh well thats ok then innit... let taxes go up more and more, lets be the hand out country of europe <_<.

 

it isnt about 'solving' anything, its about ABUSE of our welfare system, why tf should ANYBODY get anything that they arnt entitled to?... like them polish bints who have been comming here claiming benefits for their kids.... WHO ARE AT HOME IN POLAND.. that is totally unexceptable. and im not on about only migrants, however that was the theme of the header. dont get me wrong, im against systematic abuse from all quarters.

 

 

Thank God there's someone on this thread not talking out of his rectum, or saying what they think is the politically correct thing to say.... or simply saying controversial things for MAXIMUM EFFECT. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Well done, Rob.....

Thank God there's someone on this thread not talking out of his rectum, or saying what they think is the politically correct thing to say.... or simply saying controversial things for MAXIMUM EFFECT. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Well done, Rob.....

 

thank you very much russ :)