Another small boat migrant has been charged with “sexual assault” and was due to appear before Chelmsford Magistrates Court on Wednesday.
The Syrian national, Mohammed Sharwarq is living at the taxpayers Bell Hotel in Epping which has been the focus of a series of protests after a 38-year-old asylum , Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, was also charged with “sexual assault” as he tried to kiss a 14-year-old school girl.
In a statement, Essex Police said: “A man will appear in court today to face criminal charges after officers were called to the Bell Hotel on Epping High Road on Tuesday, August 12.
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“A 32-year-old man was arrested and questioned.
“Mohammed Sharwarq, a Syrian national who resides at the Bell Hotel, Epping, has been charged with the following offences: two counts of common assault; four counts of assault by beating; one count of sexual assault on a male contrary to section 3 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
“The offences are alleged to have taken place between July 25 and August 12.
“He has been remanded in custody and was due to appear at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court today, Wednesday August 13.
“Officers are not currently seeking any other suspects in relation with this case.”
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Chris Whitbread the Police and Crime Commissioner Roger Hirst, wrote to the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper calling her to act as the Bell Hotel is “unsuitable” to house migrants and warned that asylum seekers are “cresting community tensions.”
He wrote, “The current situation cannot go on. If the Bell Hotel was a nightclub, we could have closed it down long ago.
“So far as the council is aware, there is no criminal record checking of individuals who might only have been in the country a matter of days before being housed at the hotel.
“There are five schools and a residential care home within the vicinity of the hotel.
“The use by the Home Office of the premises for asylum seekers poses a clear risk of further escalating community tensions already at a high, and the risk of irreparable harm to the local community.”
