A local dad and youth football coach has been jailed for two years and nine months after clashing with police during protests outside an Essex hotel housing asylum seekers. Meanwhile, the Ethiopian migrant whose sexual assaults on a 14-year-old girl and a woman triggered those protests received just 12 months.
This is the face of inverted justice in Britain today. Native citizens who object to the consequences of unchecked migration face harsher punishment than the foreign offenders whose presence sparked their anger.
At the same time, official government guidance labels the belief that Western culture faces a threat from mass migration as a form of extremism that can trigger deradicalisation referrals.
Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, an Ethiopian national who arrived in the UK on a small boat, was housed at The Bell Hotel in Epping. In July 2025 he approached a 14-year-old girl on a bench, tried to kiss her, made sexually explicit comments and later assaulted her again. He also sexually assaulted a woman who had offered to help him with a CV.
He was found guilty of five offences and jailed for 12 months in September 2025, handed a five-year sexual harm prevention order and placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years. Court reports described him as “manipulative” with a “poor regard for women.” His crimes and presence at the hotel ignited sustained local protests last Summer and beyond.
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