72 m. ago Judge to decide 'at a later date' whether asylum seekers can stay at a migrant hotel in Essex after three

Epping Forest District Council (EFDC) is taking legal action against Somani Hotels, owner of the Bell Hotel in Epping, claiming accommodating asylum seekers breaches planning rules.

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2 h. ago Council faces wait to discover outcome of asylum seeker hotel injunction bid

Epping Forest District Council is taking legal action against Somani Hotels, which owns the Bell Hotel in Epping.

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3 h. ago Asylum hotel murder trial shown video of suspect buying alcohol and dancing

A mobile phone clip shown to jurors trying Deng Majek is alleged to show him dancing to music in a car park – in sight of emergency service crews.

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4 h. ago Moment Sudanese asylum seeker 'laughs and dances just minutes after stabbing hotel worker more than 20 times with a screwdriver'

Sudanese national Deng Chol Majek, who claims he is 19, is on trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court accused of the 'vicious' murder of Rhiannon Whyte, 27, as she left work last year.

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10 h. ago Pictured: Egyptian asylum seekers living at migrant hotel who are accused of raping woman, 33, on Brighton beach at 5am after she left nightclub

Karin Al-Danasurt, 20, (pictured) and Ibrahim Alshafe, 35, who both live in the same migrant hotel in West Sussex, appeared at Crawley magistrates' court on Thursday.

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12 h. ago Fourth man jailed for violent disorder outside hotel housing asylum seekers

Police said the 28-year-old acted in an ‘intimidating way, encouraging other people there to face off against our officers’.

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18 h. ago Asylum seeker who ‘murdered hotel worker’ was seen ‘having good time’ with pals hours after attack, court hears

AN asylum seeker accused of murdering a worker at a migrant hotel was seen “having a good time” with pals hours after the attack, a court heard yesterday. Housing officer Tyler English said Sudan-born Deng Chol Majek had “seemed sad” and “in a trance” beforehand, apparently staring at where Rhiannon Skye Whyte, 27, was working...

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20 h. ago Schoolboy, 15, heard crying 'I'm dying' after being stabbed 11 times, trial hears

A teenager is currently on trial accused of attempted murder

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21 h. ago Emmanuel Haro’s father weeps in court as he admits murdering infant son he pretended had been kidnapped

Jake Haro and his wife Rebecca were accused of pretending their infant son had been kidnapped in the street – he has now admitted murder, while she faces trial

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25 h. ago Man jailed after disorder faced discipline charge before he died, inquest hears

Peter Lynch, 61, died in HMP Moorland, near Doncaster, after he was jailed following the disorder outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham.

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25 h. ago Woman, 33, 'raped on Brighton beach' by three men including failed asylum seeker and 'immigration offender' living at Home Office asylum hotel, court hears

Magistrates were told three men - Abdulla Ahmadi, 25, an Iranian national from Crewe; and Egyptian nationals Karin Al-Danasurt, 20, and Ibrahim Alshafe, 25 - were arrested soon after.

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27 h. ago Asylum seeker seen drinking in car park after hotel worker’s murder, court told

Deng Majek is alleged to have been spotted chatting and listening to music outside Walsall’s Park Inn hotel after Rhiannon Skye Whyte was stabbed.

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44 h. ago Asylum seeker 'stabbed hotel worker over 20 times at railway station in broad daylight'

Deng Chol Majek, who the court has heard claims to be aged 19, denies murdering Rhiannon Whyte on October 20 last year.

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49 h. ago 'Murdered' migrant hotel worker 'traumatised by asylum seeker who abused her over 'biscuits he didn't like'

Sudanese national Deng Chol Majek, who claims he is 19, is on trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court accused of the 'vicious' murder of Rhiannon Whyte, 27.

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49 h. ago Witness describes ‘terrified’ screams of hotel worker ‘stabbed by asylum seeker’

A close friend of Rhiannon Skye Whyte heard three screams and then silence at the time she was fatally stabbed, a jury has heard.

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53 h. ago Asylum seeker was ‘staring spookily’ at hotel worker on day of fatal stabbing

Witnesses said Deng Chol Majek intimidated three female staff members and appeared to be ‘planning something’ at Walsall’s Park Inn hotel.

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53 h. ago Chef at asylum seeker hotel breaks down in tears as she tells jury how migrant stared at staff 'planning something' before 'murdering' her colleague with a screwdriver

Louise Brittle worked in the kitchen of the Park Inn Hotel, Walsall, where Deng Chol Majek had been living in October last year, after it was turned into a migrant hotel.

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54 h. ago Shabana Mahmood accused of 'siding against local people' in Epping migrant row, as council launches new legal challenge to close down asylum hotel

Epping Forest District Council's High Court challenge claims accommodating asylum seekers at the Bell Hotel is a 'serious, flagrant and continuing' breach of planning laws.

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54 h. ago Call for exclusion zone around Falkirk asylum hotel as protests continue

Falkirk for All say protests are intimidating for the asylum seekers and disruptive for local residents

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55 h. ago Essex asylum seeker hotel in ‘flagrant’ breach of planning laws, court told

Epping Forest District Council is taking legal action against Somani Hotels, which owns the Bell Hotel in Epping.

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