Two Epping asylum hotel protesters admit violent disorder

Two men have admitted violent disorder during a protest outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Essex.

Shaun Thompson, 38, and Luke Fleming, 21, “used or threatened unlawful violence” near The Bell Hotel in Epping on 17 July, Chelmsford Crown Court heard.

Protests were staged there during the summer after a migrant living at the hotel was charged with and later jailed for sexual offences.

Fleming, from Thaxted Road in Buckhurst Hill, and Thompson, from Buckingham Road in Epping, will be sentenced at a later date.