Hundreds of migrant men move into army barracks as fears raised over safety of British Army families

Army personnel who currently reside there are set to be deployed overseas next year, leaving their families, mostly women and children, next door to 300 incoming migrants.

According to The Daily Mail, the army barracks will be turned over by the Ministry of Defence to the Home Office on January 12.

While the families staying at the barracks have written to local councillors to express their concerns, Mr Philp has demanded the Government revoke plans to house illegal migrants there.

The concern comes in the wake of shocking sexual attacks by small boat migrants.

Recently, Rapualla Ahmadze, an asylum seeker from Afghanistan, was sentenced to nine years after raping a teenager in a Scottish park, while Jan Jahanzeb and Israr Niazal, both aged 17, pleaded guilty in October to the rape of a 15-year-old schoolgirl.

Earlier this month, Abdulmawal Ibrahim Adam was jailed for attempting to kidnap a 17-year-old girl as she was walking home from work at night.

In a letter to the Home Secretary, seen by The Mail, Mr Philp said: "We have seen cases in the news of illegal immigrants housed in hotels or 'houses of multiple occupation' committing abhorrent acts, including rape and other sexual offences.

"We have seen examples of this in Scotland in Falkirk where Afghan, Sadeq Nikzad, raped a 15-year-old girl.

"His lawyers claimed that he had not been educated about the cultural differences between the UK and Afghanistan.

"In fact, in just one week, the Press reported that: three asylum seekers have appeared in court in connection with a gang rape on Brighton Beach; a failed Somali asylum seeker remanded ahead of trial for sexual assault in Bournemouth; another asylum seeker living in a hotel appeared in court accused of raping a woman in Bournemouth and two Afghan small boat migrants convicted of raping a 15-year-old girl in Leamington Spa.

"I urge you to think again about placing unvetted male illegal immigrants close to women and children."

Mr Philp added that the parents in the barracks "have raised clear safeguarding concerns about placing a large, single-sex adult population adjacent to schools and family housing."

"Decisions of this scale, imposed without local consent or consultation, are wholly unacceptable," he continued.

"In addition, to add 300 young men to the city, in accommodation next to the wives and children of military personnel is a risk to the safety of the families."

Ward councillor Isabelle MacKenzie said: "Military wives are furious and deeply concerned. They were told not to speak out.

"I am concerned on behalf of the local community by lack of engagement, an absence of updates or information regarding security and safeguarding."

The arrest of Ethiopian migrant Hadush Kebatu sparked nationwide protests throughout the summer, after he was found guilty of two counts of sexual assault and one attempted sexual assault against a 14-year-old girl and a woman, just days after he arrived in the country on a small boat.

He tried to kiss a 14-year-old schoolgirl and then groped a woman who came to her aid.

Just one month into his 12-month sentence, Kebatu was accidentally released from prison. Following a two-day manhunt, he was found and subsequently deported back to his native Ethiopia.

He received a discretionary £500 to leave the country, giving the migrant sex attacker enough money to afford 20 nights in a fancy apartment with "resort access" in the Ethiopian capital or even enough money to purchase a smartphone.

Earlier this month, Ms Mahmood admitted to The Telegraph: "For too long, the human rights of foreign sex offenders have been prioritised over the safety of British women and girls."

She vowed to "bring this circus to an end."

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