AN ASYLUM hotel migrant arrested for assault after reportedly entering a woman’s flat has been cleared due to a lack of evidence.
The man, in his twenties, was detained by members of the public outside the Britannia Hotel in Canary Wharf, during anti-migrant protests last year.
He entered the woman’s house after being followed by a group of men on the street, MailOnline reports.
The man has now reportedly been cleared due to a lack of evidence after he was arrested by police on suspicion of common assault.
Footage swirled on social media at the time of a man being held by the public and told to “go back to the hotel” where protesters were gathered last August.
The blind woman whose house he stormed was reportedly left “traumatised” and “feared for her life”.
He is no longer believed to be staying at the Britannia, a five-minute walk away from the woman’s home.
While the daughter of the blind woman, Channay Augustus, then 22, tried to force her way into a migrant hotel with a meat cleaver, a court heard last year.
The trouble erupted when she discovered the migrant inside her mum’s flat, Thames Magistrates’ Court was told.
She was allegedly part of a group of around 20 people who tried to storm the hotel on the Isle of Dogs, East London.
Augustus allegedly chased the man away before heading to the hotel at 6pm where she confronted a security guard.
She returned a short time later with a meat cleaver and started banging it on a metal barrier outside the hotel, the court heard.
She later appeared at Snaresbrook Crown Court, London, where she pleaded guilty to affray and not guilty to threatening another person with a blade and assaulting an emergency worker.
Her trial is due to take place in June this year.
The Britannia Hotel was the subject of protests last summer after it was used for migrants arriving in Britain.
It was closed to paying customers and converted into taxpayer-funded “surge” accommodation for illegal arrivals in the UK.
At the time, a coach load of asylum seekers were seen running into the four-star establishment under the cover of darkness.
The Sun previously reported how mattresses, drinks and bed frames were shipped into hotel, which branded itself as the “perfect” place for tourists to spend a weekend.
The 500-room hotel – said to have “superb views over London” – was designated for asylum seekers in a move that angered anti-migrant protesters who staged peaceful demonstrations outside.
Six demonstrators were arrested amid the protests which saw people setting off smoke flares and waving England flags outside.
The Met Police had imposed conditions using Section 14 of the Public Order Act to prevent serious disruption.
