Epping Reform candidate demands guilty hotel migrant be deported: 'Put him on a plane and send him back!'

The 38-year-old small boat migrant arrived at The Bell Hotel in Epping just eight days before sexually assaulting a woman and a 14-year-old girl.

Following the incident, mass protests were sparked outside the Epping hotel, demanding its closure. A Court of Appeal order then overturned an injunction by Epping Forest Council, meaning the hotel is still able to house asylum seekers.

After denying all charges against him, a three-day trial at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court concluded that he was guilty of the offences.

Speaking to GB News following the verdict, Ms Minihane told National Reporter Charlie Peters: "Look, we're absolutely delighted with the charges, of course, and we feel vindicated.

"But I think it's really important to remember that in the middle of all of this is a little 14-year-old girl whose life will never be the same again.

"Not only has she been assaulted, but she's been through legal proceedings, court proceedings which no 14-year-old child should have to go through."

Highlighting the ongoing concerns of the community, Ms Minihane added: "What concerns us now is how many similar men are in this hotel and in hotels up and down the country?

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"He came here, and after only eight days, he went on to sexually assault this young girl.

"It's not even like he was here for a long period of time, straight off the boat illegally and straight into this hotel and then up to no good.

"That is what really concerns us with all the schools that are around here, especially now they've gone back after the summer."

Demanding that Mr Kebatu be "deported" following his guilty verdict, the Reform UK candidate explained: "We are pleased that he has been dealt with, but ideally, he should be deported.

"We don't want him going into a prison where the taxes from people like us are going to have to go towards paying for him and paying for his upkeep. Put him on a plane and send him back."

Expressing her concern for the number of illegal migrants in Britain with no knowledge of their criminal records, Ms Minihane stressed: "We don't know about any of these men. We don't know their backgrounds, their history, their criminal records.

"And that is what every person who stands outside these hotels up and down the country has an issue with and is concerned about.

"We don't know the risk that all these men pose to our children and women."

Calling on the Government to take more decisive action on the migrant crisis in Britain, Ms Minihane concluded: "It is absolutely imperative that this Government get control over this situation and stop them coming in day after day after day.

"They don't know anything about these men, and at the end of the day, he has come through Africa into Europe and straight over to the UK, which is what they all do, because they know when they get here they'll get a hotel, they'll get everything paid for, as opposed to being put into a tent or a camp and then sent straight back.

"That's why they come here, we're a soft touch and an easy touch. At the end of the day, for the judge to say he is a man of good character, he was here for eight days, how can anybody have any idea about someone's background in eight days?

"And the fact that they've got no detail on him, it's because he's lost all his documentation, like they all do.

"What amazes me is they all manage to have a packet of cigarettes and their phone when they get off the boat, but not their passports."