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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Diane Taylor

Head of security at Essex centre for disabled asylum seekers removed over alleged far-right views

Tommy Robinson addresses a rally from a stage in Parliament Square in London. Union Jack and England flags are waved in the crowd
Tommy Robinson addresses a rally in Parliament Square in London. Videos featuring Robinson appeared on the YouTube channel believed to belong to the removed security official. Photograph: Guy Smallman/Getty Images

The head of security at accommodation for vulnerable disabled asylum seekers has been removed from his duties over concerns about his alleged support for the far-right English Defence League and Tommy Robinson, the Guardian has learned.

The asylum seekers, who have a range of disabilities, have been accommodated by the Home Office in a former care home in Nigel Farage’s Clacton constituency in an area where officials from the local Tendring district council have recorded the area’s highest level of hate crimes.

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