The man behind the Liverpool Women’s Hospital blast carried it out with ‘murderous intent’.
Details of how Emad Al Swealmeen’s homemade explosive detonated while in a taxi outside the hospital on Remembrance Sunday have been disclosed.
An inquest into the 32-year-old’s death revealed he had called his brother in America days before the fatal incident warning he may do ‘something bad’.
Senior corner Mr Rebello said: “Towards the end of call, Emad said something like ‘if I do something bad that will affect the family what do you think?’
“He replied something like ‘don’t do s***’, advising him as an older brother, although this was something which caused him concern, knowing his previous issues.”
It has also been disclosed that Al Swealmeen had unsuccessfully attempted to seek asylum in the UK after arriving in the country on a visa in May 2014.
His final asylum claim had been rejected in November 2020 despite supposedly converting from Islam to Christianity to improve his chances.
Mr Rebello could not confirm whether it had been Iraqi native’s intention for the device to launch outside the hospital’s main entrance on November 14.
He did however conclude Al Swealmeen had created the homemade bomb with ‘murderous intent’ and it could have killed ‘many, many innocent people’.
Taxi driver David Perry, who picked up Al Swealmeen from his flat in Rutland Avenue, somehow escaped from the vehicle while the blast was in progress.
DCI Andrew Meeks told the inquest that the property was a ‘bomb making factory’ but there was no evidence that anyone helped construct the device.
He also revealed that Al Swealmeen had purchased 2,000 ball bearings, which were propelled a taxi windscreen 16 metres following the device’s detonation.
Items likely to have been intended for use in improvised firearms were also recovered from the bomber’s previously registered address in Sutcliffe Street.