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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Tristan Kirk

Epping asylum seeker hotel 'feeding ground for violent unrest', says council in High Court bid to shut it down

An Epping hotel housing asylum seekers is putting school pupils in danger and is acting as a “feeding ground for unrest and protest, the council has told the High Court in a bid for an injunction to shut it down.

The Bell Hotel has been at the centre of regular protests for more than a month after it emerged that an asylum seeker had been charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.

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