Tuesday's front pages focus on the suspect in Sunday's Liverpool bombing.
Most of Tuesday's papers lead with the latest on the Liverpool taxi bombing suspect, after he was named by police as Emad Al Swealmeen. The Daily Mail has exclusive pictures of Al Swealmeen wearing a chef's hat, cooking a pizza, and describes him as a Christian convert who had a rejected asylum application in 2014.The main story in The Times is about Al Swealmeen's conversion to Christianity, but the paper also has additional detail about the incident.
The paper says Al Swealmeen was a Syrian asylum seeker, but other papers are suggesting he was from Iraq.The Telegraph reports Al Swealmeen intended to detonate his device at the same cathedral where he had been confirmed four years earlier by the Right Reverend Cyril Ashton. Security sources working on the investigation have said the motive for the attack remains unclear, it reports.The Guardian leads on the rising terror threat, following the bombing.
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