A “violent mob” at an asylum hotel protest attacked police officers and turned Epping into “a scene of disorder and chaos”, a court has heard. Lee Gower, 43, and Phillip Curson, 53, of Upminster, deny ...

Asylum seekers can stay at a protest-hit hotel in Epping after a High Court judge denied the local council an injunction to block migrants from being housed there. Epping Forest District Council took ...

Last summer, a 14-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by an asylum seeker in Epping and this small community was engulfed in protest. Can it recover? When Sherzod* moved to Epping in 2025, he was ...

A man has been jailed for two years and seven months after admitting violent disorder during a protest outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Essex. Shaun Thompson, 38, used or threatened unlawful ...