Ron and Penny Jones are claiming Surrey County Council have been negligent for placing Ahmed Hassan with them without informing them that in a January 2016 immigration review the teenager had admitted he had been trained to kill by the Islamic State terrorist group.
The couple say they only found out this information at Hassan's trial and had instead been told by the council that Hassan had been captured by Islamic State but had escaped.
Hassan was handed a life sentence aged 18 last year after being found guilty of planting a bomb in September 2017 on a tube train at Parsons Green, which partially exploded injuring 51 people.
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