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Evening Standard
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Laura Parnaby and Miriam Burrell

Child refugee allegedly kissed and forced onto bed at London hotel

A child refugee was left “distressed and crying” after a teenage boy forcibly kissed him and held him against his will in the bedroom of a hotel housing asylum seekers, a court has been told.

Stratford Youth Court in east London heard the 15-year-old allegedly took a 12-year-old boy to his room, where he pushed him on to a bed “more than 10 times” as he tried to escape.

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