Before the fire and fury in Southport, there was a name – Ali Al-Shakati. Al-Shakati has never existed, we now know, but that didn’t stop an obscure, Russian-linked fake news outlet from ...

He was “Ali al-Shakati,” a “17-year-old asylum-seeker,” a website called Channel3 Now reported. Claims that the suspect was a Muslim migrant provoked a week of unrest across England.

Social media posts claimed the attacker was a man called Ali Al-Shakati, a Muslim asylum seeker who arrived in the UK on a small boat last year and was on an MI6 watchlist.. None of it was true. A ...

Southport Stabbings suspect is Ali-Al-Shakati, surprise surprise and was on MI6 watch list/ was known to Liverpool mental health services. He was an asylum seeker who came to the UK by boat last year.

Mr Heath said: "Ali Al Shakati is a name that was circulated from a false news channel, which a lot of people got took in by, obviously me included. It was wildfire on X." ...

Posts on social media have incorrectly named the suspect arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of three children in Southport as “Ali Al-Shakati”.. Eight other children and two adults were ...

Website Channel3 Now spread fake news that the triple murder suspect was an asylum seeker with the fake name Ali Al-Shakati, who arrived in the UK on a small boat and was on the MI6 watchlist ...

Before the victims had been identified, Mrs Spofforth, 55, wrote at 4.49pm: 'Ali Al-Shakati was the suspect, he was an asylum seeker who came to the UK by boat last year and was on an MI6 watch list.

Spofforth, 55, posted the false claim at 4.49pm on Monday, July 29, the day of the attack, saying: ‘Ali Al-Shakati was the suspect, he was an asylum seeker who came to the UK by boat last year ...

Ms Spofforth is understood to have written: “Ali Al-Shakati was the suspect, he was an asylum seeker who came to the UK by boat last year and was on an MI6 watch list. If this is true, then all ...

Russian-linked fake news outlet Channel3 tweeted false information about the Southport stabbing suspect. However, in the immediate aftermath of the killings a social media account named Channel3 ...

Mr Heath said: "Ali Al Shakati is a name that was circulated from a false news channel, which a lot of people got took in by, obviously me included. It was wildfire on X." ...