I entered the UK with a migrant exploiting the porous Irish border

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.

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