Former immigration minister Robert Jenrick referred to "spurious" claims by people in the asylum system that they have converted to Christianity "aided and abetted by often well-meaning but naive vicars and priests".
The Bishop of Chelmsford has denied that the Church of England has "aided and abetted" asylum seekers through the system by supporting fake conversions.
When I first heard about the appalling acid (as we then thought) attack on a woman and two children in south London, these were my slightly garbled first thoughts: