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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Ben Quinn Political correspondent

Starmer tells Travelodge boss to engage with MPs over sexual assault case

A six-storey building with a Travelodge logo down the side and shops on the ground floor
The Travelodge in Maidenhead, Berkshire, where Kyran Smith assaulted a woman in December 2022. Photograph: Maureen McLean/Shutterstock

Keir Starmer has written to the chief executive of Travelodge to press the hotel chain to “seriously engage” with MPs raising concerns about its protocols after a woman was sexually assaulted by a man who was given her room number and a keycard by staff.

MPs who had sought an urgent meeting with Jo Boydell said the case of Kyran Smith, 29, who was jailed for seven and a half years last month, raised “deeply concerning” questions. He attacked the woman after a party in December 2022.

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