An anti-migrant YouTuber who claims to promote the "protection of women and children" by filming protests at asylum hotels is a convicted paedophile.
Anthony Styles' YouTube channel, AJ Audits, has gained thousands of views by livestreaming demonstrations against grooming gangs and illegal immigrants.
Styles recorded gatherings outside hotels in Epping and outer London, where protesters called asylum seekers sexual predators who made young girls unsafe.
Protests were sparked after a small boat migrant sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl in Epping, Essex, in July.
Styles has now been convicted as a child sex offender and sentenced to four and a half years in jail after indecently assaulting a girl under the age of 14.
In 2017, he was put on the sex offenders register for life and handed an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
Five years prior, the YouTuber also admitted to sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl and having hundreds of indecent images of children.
He was handed a three-year community order for the offence.
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Styles attended multiple demonstrations outside of hotels housing asylum seekers
|Styles' criminal record was uncovered by Stand Up To Racism, who saw his name printed on a fake press pass he created for himself.
The paedophile has a history of convictions, including sexually abusing a young girl in 1993, who sat on his knee after school.
He was sentenced for the offence more than 20 years later in 2017.
Styles also possessed 307 indecent images of children in a collection of "naturist" images.
Judge Robert Altham handed Styles his sentence, stating: "The victim was in the habit of coming back to the flats after school. It is on one of those occasions, when she was in the defendant's sole company in her school uniform, sitting on his knee, as the defendant watched TV.
"He only ceased from this conduct when his partner was coming in, at which stage he got up. Nothing was said at the time, but she subsequently raised it with her, and he made an admission of sorts. At the time, he passed it off as accidental touching.
"But in his trial, Styles denied the events ever took place. She has described that this incident has had a significant effect on her.
"There is, properly stated, an abuse of trust in this case. This is a case where the family trusted the care of this little girl to the defendant. He was trusted to be alone with her."
Styles has been sentenced to four and a half years behind bars
|Styles has since deleted his YouTube channel, which showed him at demonstrations across the summer.
He can be heard saying in one video, where he filmed a coach full of Asian men: "They are not welcome. They are illegal migrants."
Lewis Nielsen, a Stand Up to Racism officer, said: "These revelations show the far right have never cared about women's rights, they've been harbouring convicted offenders in their midst. The hypocrisy is off the charts.
"This man has claimed to be protecting women and girls while hiding his own convictions. Refugees aren't the threat to women; the real threat is far-right fanboys of Elon Musk."