2 h. ago Mahmood announces ban on taxi use for asylum seeker medical trips

The Home Secretary said the Government is working with providers to introduce alternatives.

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14 h. ago Police swarm Hilton asylum seeker hotel and arrest three men after 'stabbing'

The incident took place at around 10.45am yesterday at the Hampton by Hilton hotel in Westhill, which has been used to house asylum seekers since 2023.

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15 h. ago Migrant 'stabbed at asylum seeker hotel' as police swarm building

The asylum seeker, believed to be aged 26, was reportedly stabbed at the hotel in Aberdeenshire - police have made three arrests and recovered a weapon

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16 h. ago Albanian national who was deported twice from UK jailed after entering illegally for third time

Emirjon Gjuta, 34, was sentenced to 14 months in prison at Leeds Crown Court

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17 h. ago Three arrested after attack outside asylum seeker hotel near Aberdeen

A man was left with facial injuries after he was attacked by a group of men in Westhill, near Aberdeen

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35 h. ago Brit dad, 28, died after being hit by ‘speeding’ jet ski in horror accident on Dubai boat trip, inquest hears

A BRIT dad was killed in a horror jet ski accident as his partner watched on holding their four-month-old baby, an inquest heard today. Ali Watson, 28, tragically died when a “speeding” jet ski ploughed into him in Dubai, a UK court heard. Assistant coroner Luisa Nicholson concluded Ali died as a result of an accident,...

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47 h. ago Asylum seeker who entered illegally on small boat twice is hit with 7 word statement from judge

A asylum seeker has been jailed after crossing the channel on a small boat on two separate occasions

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49 h. ago Number of migrants in asylum seeker hotels rises despite Labour pledge to end their use

Record 110,000 people claimed asylum in the UK in the past year

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49 h. ago Asylum seeker hotel numbers up by 13% in three months, new data shows

Labour has pledged to no longer be using asylum hotels by the end of this Parliament – which would be 2029, if not earlier.

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3 d. ago Saudi Arabian asylum seeker appears in court accused of groping a woman at a Tube station

Muslih Alotaibi, 39, is said to have carried out the sexual assault at Bank Underground station on April 13.

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3 d. ago ‘Killer’ asylum seeker ‘Chris Jude’ beat & raped another woman, 30, days before murdering teen cyclist Lisa, court hears

THE accused killer of a Dutch teen cyclist raped another woman just days before the shocking murder of Lisa, a court has heard. Prosecutors gave a painstaking minute-by-minute account of Chris Jude's alleged actions across two nights in August, leaving one woman traumatised and a teen girl dead. The accused has reportedly been calling himself...

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4 d. ago Home Office 'should have the guts' to meet public over Cameron Barracks asylum seeker plan

Fergus Ewing said the UK government ‘has made this plan and should have the guts to put it to the people’

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4 d. ago Islamist terror suspect questioned over Sri Lankan bombings which killed 269 people seeks asylum in Britain

The asylum seeker, from Sri Lanka, was held over allegations that he was involved in the Easter Sunday bombings in April 2019, which killed 269 including eight Brits.

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5 d. ago STUC to host summit 'to reject disinformation' over Cameron Barracks asylum seeker plan

The STUC has invited the UK Home Office, Highland Council, the local MP and MSPs, NHS Highland and Police Scotland to a meeting in a bid to “counter the false narratives permeated by the far right.”

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6 d. ago The life and limbo of a UK asylum seeker: one man’s harrowing 17

Ussu fled imprisonment and torture, only to find himself treated like a liar and outcast in the UK. Here’s how he survived homelessness and horrific injury in almost two decades without a decisionThe outcome for those involved in military coups can be unpredictable at the best of times. In Ussu’s case, he was captured and tortured before making a bold escape. But after breaking out of the compound where he was jailed, and coming to Britain, a very different kind of fight lay ahead – one that lasted almost two decades.Ussu grew up in a small and unstable African country, a former Portuguese colony that was no stranger to attempted coups (the country is not being named to protect Ussu’s identity). A good student, he dreamed of going to university to train to become a doctor, but he was required to complete two years of military service first. Once he was in the army, though, his superiors refused to release him. Years passed and there was still no sign of an exit route. He became incr...

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1 week ago The parties inside Britain's biggest asylum seeker centre: Migrants dance with the help of disco equipment in new video

In the shocking footage a group of men can be seen dancing and singing around in a recreation area at former RAF Wethersfield in Essex.

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1 week ago Grinning Iraqi dinghy asylum seeker gives female victim, 20, a thumbs

In the footage, taken from inside Crawley Train Station on September 22 this year, Hawre Mohamed and can be seen talking to the victim and gesturing at her before he barges through the ticket barriers.

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1 week ago Asylum seeker jailed AGAIN after he just carried on crimes following prison release

Sarwar Mohammed has been locked up again

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1 week ago Asylum seeker jailed for drug dealing just carried on after release from prison

Sarwar Mohammed has been locked up again

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1 week ago Calls for public inquiry into 'catastrophic failure in border security' which allowed a failed asylum seeker to murder an innocent restaurant owner

Somalian national Haybe Cabdiraxmaan Nur, 47, plunged a knife into the chest of Gurvinder Singh Johal, 37, four months after his asylum application was rejected.

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