31 h. ago Three asylum seekers in court charged with rape on Brighton beach

Sussex police officers received a report that a woman had been raped on the lower esplanade in Brighton at about 5am on the morning of October 4.

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33 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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41 h. ago Brighton beach 'rape' sees three men charged after early morning attack

The three men have been remanded in custody and are due to appear at Brighton Magistrates Court later today following the alleged rape of a woman on Brighton Beach

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62 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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63 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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3 d. ago CCTV of asylum seeker 'following migrant hotel worker to deserted railway platform where he stabbed her to death with a screwdriver' is shown in court

Sudanese national Deng Chol Majek, who claims he is 19, went on trial on Tuesday accused of launching a 'frenzied attack' on Rhiannon Whyte as she commuted home from the Park Inn Hotel.

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3 d. ago Asylum seeker who denies murder ‘found with woman’s DNA under his fingernails’

Deng Chol Majek contests the Crown’s claim that CCTV proves he stabbed Rhiannon Skye Whyte and then left her for dead on a railway station platform.

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3 d. ago Asylum seeker 'followed migrant hotel employee home and stabbed her to death with a screwdriver on deserted train platform as she screamed', court hears

Sudanese national Deng Chol Majek, who claims he is 19, allegedly launched a 'vicious and frenzied attack' on Rhiannon Whyte as she commuted home from the Park Inn Hotel in Walsall.

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3 d. ago Sudanese asylum seeker 'laughed and danced' after stabbing migrant hotel worker to death, court hears

Sudanese national Deng Chol Majek, who claims he is 19, allegedly launched a 'vicious and frenzied attack' on Rhiannon Whyte as she commuted home from the Park Inn Hotel in Walsall.

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3 w. ago Asylum seeker who stabbed six in hotel rampage made threats 24 hours before, court hears

An asylum seeker who was shot and killed after he stabbed six people at a hotel in Glasgow made threats 24 hours before the incident, a court heard yesterday.

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4 w. ago How Trump has turned the legal system ‘on its head’ to meet deportation goals

Cuban asylum seeker EC and others saw hard-won victories vanish as new rules upended immigration courtsThe Cuban asylum seeker referred to in court papers as EC could not believe his luck, and neither could his lawyers.They’d come to immigration court in Miami in late spring expecting only incremental progress in a case that had been grinding away for more than three years. Yet here was the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lawyer telling the judge the government was dropping its deportation demands. It seemed EC had won, eligible at last for a green card and permanent residency in the United States. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago First person removed to France under ‘one in, one out’ asylum deal, says UK

Agreement reached with France allows for removal of asylum seekers who arrive on small boatsUK politics live – latest updatesThe first Channel migrant has been deported to France under the controversial one in, one out deal, the Home Office has confirmed.It follows three days of cancellations of tickets of asylum seekers due to fly and a high court challenge that halted the imminent removal of a 25-year-old Eritrean man to France on Tuesday evening. He was granted more time to gather evidence relating to his claim that he is a victim of trafficking. Continue reading...

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