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Asylum seeker is jailed for trying to torch Armley home

Yorkshire Evening Post

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June 26, 2025

An asylum seeker set fire to the house he was assigned after becoming frustrated, claiming nobody would help him.

- by Nick Frame

Asylum seeker is jailed for trying to torch Armley home

Zaidan Hossan Taha, from Kurdish Iraq, started a blaze in the shared Armley property then left without raising the alarm, Leeds Crown Court heard.

The 24-year-old was jailed after admitting arson reckless as to whether life was endangered, and assault of an emergency worker after he later spat in the face of an officer.

The court heard Taha had come to the West for a “nicer life”.

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