{"id":491126,"date":"2026-03-23T15:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/491126\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T15:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:59:07","slug":"two-epping-asylum-hotel-protesters-admit-violent-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/491126\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Epping asylum hotel protesters admit violent disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two men have admitted violent disorder during a protest outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Essex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shaun Thompson, 38, and Luke Fleming, 21, &#8220;used or threatened unlawful violence&#8221; near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c70rgkrr6rpo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Bell Hotel in Epping on 17 July<\/a>, Chelmsford Crown Court heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Protests were staged there during the summer after a migrant living at the hotel was charged with and later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cp8j5vp7413o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">jailed for sexual offences<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fleming, from Thaxted Road in Buckhurst Hill, and Thompson, from Buckingham Road in Epping, will be sentenced at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have admitted violent disorder during a protest outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Essex. Shaun&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-491126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}