‘Child’ migrant who killed asylum centre worker is an adult, Swedish migration rules

You don’t say? From the Telegraph

The asylum seeker who stabbed 22-year-old Alexandra Mezher to death at an accommodation centre in Sweden last month is an adult, not a 15-year-old as he had claimed, Sweden’s migration agency has ruled.

Ms Mezher was stabbed at the centre for refugee children aged between 14 and 17 who are without any adult guardians in Molndal near Gothenburg on Sweden’s west coast. The agency’s ruling, which came after a series of interviews with the young man, means he could face a prison sentence for the brutal killing.

“The fact that he is judged to be over 18 affects which punishment can be applied,” Linda Wiking, the prosecutor in the case, told Expressen newspaper. “It means that he can be criminally responsible and can be sentenced to prison.”

The ruling, included in a decision to refuse him a permit to stay and work in the country, was first reported by the Goteborgs-Posten newspaper.

It will add to growing suspicions that a large portion of the 35,000 unaccompanied refugee minors who claimed asylum in the country last year have lied about their age, claiming to be under-18 in order to take advantage of more generous asylum rules.