UK: Failed asylum seeker jailed for seven years after raping woman; during the trial, the jury heard audio clips of the attack

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A man who was appealing his rejected asylum claim has been sentenced to seven years in prison after being found guilty of raping a young woman in her own home.

Chret Callender, 28, from Trinidad, was staying at an asylum hotel when he raped the woman after a night out in Bournemouth in June last year.

During the sentencing hearing, the young woman broke down in tears as she bravely read her victim impact statement.

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The woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, said, “What he did that night has destroyed my sense of safety and completely changed how I lived my life. The attack has left deep emotional wounds I carry every single day.”

She continued: “My life has changed completely. I now suffer from panic attacks, anxiety, and fear. I no longer feel safe in a place I call home.

“This wasn’t just one night, this is life-changing pain and trauma I carry every single day. What he did has changed me forever.”

Upon sentencing, Judge Fuller KC said: “You behaved in an animalistic way, ignoring her cries and pain.”

“You showed not a shred of remorse, and have warped ideas about consent,” Judge Fuller KC said.

However, Mary Aspinall-Miles, defending, said Callender now feels remorseful and wishes “to wind the clock back”.

Callender was sentenced to seven years in prison, but is eligible for release on license after serving just two-thirds of his sentence.

Callender has now said he wants to return to Trinidad, after a jury found him guilty of rape and sexual assault last month.

His lawyer says the 28-year-old is keen to engage in the Government’s Early Removal scheme, which allows foreign prisoners to be deported before the end of their sentence.

During the trial, the jury heard audio clips of the attack, which the woman secretly recorded on her phone.

The young woman could be heard saying “I have said no, please stop”, before Callender told her to “have some respect for me” and “to shut up”.

He went on to say, “why are you crying? You’re making me feel like I’m raping you”.

After the attack, Callender was heard telling the woman he was sorry and that he had “f***ed up”.

Callender, who was staying at the Britannia Hotel, one of three asylum hotels in Bournemouth, denied raping the woman.

He admitted to pressuring her into having sex but claimed he stopped when she said no.

He claimed to Bournemouth Crown Court the woman faked the attack when she started recording.

But a jury found him guilty of rape and sexual assault after almost five hours of deliberations.

The young woman gave evidence in the trial, saying: “I made it clear no means no. He was telling me he didn’t care if I cried.

“I tried pushing him off but I couldn’t, he kept pushing my hands away. I didn’t feel strong enough to push him off”, she said.

“He was quite forceful so I couldn’t really move. He grabbed my wrist at one point, I said ‘stop that, you’re hurting me’.

“When he finished, I went to the bathroom and locked myself in.”

Bournemouth Crown Court heard the rape happened in the early hours of June 14, 2025.

Mary Aspinall-Miles, defending, told the court, “he arrived on a lawful visa and remained and then made an asylum claim, which was rejected for lack of evidence”.

“During the appeals process he was in Bournemouth,” Aspinall-Miles said.

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Young mother shot dead in Nice, France, while shielding baby during scooter attack

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A young woman was shot and killed in Nice on Wednesday evening after her car was fired upon by a man riding a scooter, while her baby, who was in the vehicle with her, escaped unharmed, authorities said.

According to Le Parisien, the shooting occurred shortly before 6 p.m. at the junction of Avenue Henri-Matisse and Boulevard Napoléon III, in the west of the city. The victim, aged 25, was driving when the attacker pulled alongside her vehicle and opened fire with a handgun.

Local prosecutor Damien Martinelli said the woman was already in cardiac arrest when emergency services arrived. “Their efforts to resuscitate her were unsuccessful,” he told French media. A murder investigation has been opened.

Witnesses described a chaotic scene following the shooting. One resident said the sound of gunfire prompted them to rush to their balcony, where they saw the woman’s BMW roll downhill along Avenue Henri-Matisse before crashing into a pole. “It was exactly 6 p.m. when we heard gunshots,” the witness said. “We went straight outside, called the fire department, and tried to provide first aid for 20 minutes, then we waited for the police to arrive.”

Several witnesses said the woman appeared to have shielded her baby during the attack. “From what I understand, the woman dove on top of her baby, who was in the passenger seat, to protect him; that’s why she seems to have been shot in the torso,” one witness told Le Parisien. “We immediately got the baby out of the car.”

Some witnesses reported hearing up to 10 gunshots and said two men were involved, while others said only one shooter was seen on the scooter. “As soon as he fired, the scooter driver drove off immediately,” another witness said. “It’s a very quiet neighborhood; I’ve lived here all my life. It’s shocking to shoot a woman and a baby.”

Emergency services deployed around 20 firefighters and multiple vehicles to the scene.

A scooter believed to have been used in the attack was found abandoned without license plates near the Nice-Ville train station shortly after the shooting.

ActuNice reported that the city’s mayor, Christian Estrosi, visited the scene and condemned the killing. “Immense emotion and profound anger after the death of a young woman, targeted by gunfire while she was with her baby, who thankfully is safe and sound,” he said. “The full truth must come out about this despicable act, and the perpetrators must be found as quickly as possible. The City of Nice will put all its resources at the service of the investigators.”

Éric Ciotti, the center-right member of parliament for Alpes-Maritimes, also reacted. “Absolute tragedy on Avenue Henri Matisse in Nice: a woman was shot dead in her car,” he said. “A baby, present in the vehicle despite it being riddled with bullet holes, miraculously escaped unharmed.”

Later reporting by Le Figaro noted the victim was of Cape Verdean nationality, while police confirmed that a suspect believed to be the owner of the scooter has been arrested, though it remains unclear whether he is the person who fired the shots.

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Trump slams the ‘green’ agenda as ‘biggest hoax in history’ in Davos 2026 address

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Donald Trump has called “green energy” and the Green New Deal the “greatest hoax in history” in his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

During his special address on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum (WEF), Trump said the “Green New Scam” (a reference to the “Green New Deal”) is “perhaps the greatest hoax in history.”

“Because of my election victory, the United States avoided the catastrophic energy collapse, which befell every European nation that pursued the Green New Scam,” Trump declared.

He went on to rave against windmills, noting how inefficient they are. He said every time a windmill goes around, “you lose 1,000 dollars.”

Trump noted that countries like Germany, which have embraced so-called “green” energy, produce less energy now than they did years ago, have higher energy prices, and have less energy security.

In his typical ironic tone, the U.S. president started his speech by greeting “many friends, and some enemies.”

Trump used the first part of his speech to talk about the economic success of the U.S. under his presidency, then shifted his focus to Europe. He stressed repeatedly that he wants Europe to do well, highlighting the common heritage of the U.S. and Europe and his German and Scottish heritage. However, he sees Europe heading in the wrong direction due to left-wing policies on energy, government spending, and mass migration.

“Certain places in Europe are not even recognizable, frankly, anymore … I love Europe, and I want to see Europe go good, but it’s not heading in the right direction,” he said.

“In recent decades, it became conventional wisdom in Washington and European capitals that the only way to grow a modern Western economy was through ever-increasing government spending, unchecked mass migration, and endless foreign imports,” the U.S. president stated.

“This was the path that the Sleepy Joe Biden administration and many other Western governments very foolishly followed, turning their back on everything that makes nations rich and powerful and strong.”

Addressing the controversy over Greenland, Trump said that the country is geographically part of North America and is in a “key strategic location between the United States, Russia, and China.”

He reiterated his wish to purchase Greenland for “strategic national and international security,” and stressed that only the U.S. would be able to keep Greenland safe from potential enemies.

“We want a piece of ice for world protection, and they won’t give it,” he said. “They [Denmark] have a choice, you can say ‘yes’ and we will be very appreciative, or you can say ‘no,’ and we will remember.”

The day before Trump’s speech, the European Parliament froze ratification of a U.S. trade deal after the U.S. president threatened to impose additional tariffs on European nations over the Greenland controversy.

Trump also highlighted his push for housing affordability by referencing his announcement for a ban on large institutional investment companies from buying up single-family homes and capping credit card interest rates at 10 percent.

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UK: Muslim woman built like a fridge with a face pudgier than a cabbage patch doll gets government position to lecture about health

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Unending madness.

by Olivia Murray 

The private sector is built on merit and legitimate contribution, so it goes without saying that people without such things have no place in that type of economy. But, fear not, for the government is always there, ready to hand out taxpayer-subsidized jobs to those who could never earn an income where brains and skill actually matter. (Bonus points if the unhirable loser is a third world foreigner who hates the host nation and its people.)

Enter, Athika Ahmed, a new “health ambassador” for some government “youth panel” in Wales.

The horror: In Athika’s world, schools only taught useless information, like how to “apply for a bank account,” how to read and write, “how to get a job,” and the necessary math skills to balance a checkbook. What they should have been doing is teaching students “the difference between a pad and a tampon” and all about endometriosis. (As a woman myself, I actually don’t know what endometriosis is and I’ve survived on this planet for 36 years and counting.) The school system failed, because Athika never learned about what’s necessary to “prolong” life.

Clearly.

That head is all blubber, no brain. Her face is so fat it’s literally squishing her features into being less visible, and she’s the size of a fridge. This is all diet.

And she knows best about health issues? Let me guess, she probably thinks raw milk is bad, and red meat causes heart attacks. Heart attacks and cardiovascular issues couldn’t possibly be the prevalence of rancid seed oil fats and massive amounts of necrotic processed sugar in modern diets with all the hormone disrupters in our environment; it’s definitely the food that humans have thrived on for millennia past! (As an aside, I recently had e. Coli, which I caught completely by chance as I had zero symptoms, and I credit the prevalence of good bacteria in my system from all the raw milk I drink, as well as a strong gut lining from all the red meat I eat with its full amino acid profile.)

Everything about Athika led me to believe she’s a leftist, and that was before I discovered she’s vocally pro-Hamas:

Therefore, I can only assume that she gobbles up all the other leftist talking points like she does with what “real” health is. Imagine a person like this lecturing on a proper allocation of resources. I’m sorry, how many calories does she consume daily? How many surplus meals does she rob from the mouths of babes? Couldn’t all the food she’s scarfing down go to the “starving children” of Gaza that she claims to care so much about?

Unending madness.

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Spanish Left Redefines ‘Freedom’: Hijab Encouraged in Schools

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Spain’s debate over religion in schools has taken a decisive—and controversial—turn. A new report published by the Institute of Women, an agency under the Ministry of Equality, openly defends the wearing of the Islamic hijab in classrooms and goes a step further by publicly naming schools that have limited or banned it.

The document, “‘Hands Off That!’: Discrimination Against Young Muslim Women Wearing the Hijab in the Education System,” presents these restrictions not as neutral disciplinary decisions, but as cases of institutional discrimination. According to the report, opposition to the hijab is rooted in “Islamophobia,” described as a form of cultural racism that targets Muslims—or those perceived to be Muslim—within Spain’s education system.

The report directly challenges long-standing justifications used by schools, including uniform policies, common dress codes, and the preservation of a neutral learning environment. These arguments, it claims, are selectively applied and disproportionately affect Muslim girls.

In unusually explicit terms for an official government document, the Institute of Women identifies specific centres and incidents: students barred from wearing the hijab during exams, university entrance tests, vocational training placements in hospitals or care homes, and even school sports competitions. In each case, responsibility is placed firmly on school management, accused of misusing concepts such as secularism and ideological neutrality.

The consequences, the report argues, are severe. Restrictions on the hijab allegedly lead to interrupted education, forced school changes, and, in some cases, early dropout—outcomes framed as evidence of systemic bias rather than isolated administrative decisions.

A striking reversal in feminist doctrine

What makes the report particularly striking is its sharp departure from Spain’s recent feminist orthodoxy. Until recently, institutions aligned with the Equality Ministry denounced school uniforms as instruments of control over female bodies—sometimes even as a form of sexualisation. Uniformity itself was portrayed as incompatible with women’s autonomy.

Now, a religious garment with a strong ideological and cultural meaning is officially endorsed as a symbol of freedom. The report insists that Muslim women who wear the hijab do so by choice and condemns what it describes as a Western stereotype portraying them as “submissive and without agency,” dominated by a religion characterised as “monolithic, irrational and misogynistic.”

For critics, the contradiction is hard to ignore: dress codes are oppressive—unless they are religious.

Secularism, selectively applied

The shift also reopens an unresolved question in Spanish politics: what does secularism actually mean? Under left-wing governments, public authorities aggressively limited the presence of Christian symbols in schools, particularly crosses, arguing that visible religion had no place in public education.

The new report suggests a different standard. Far from excluding religious symbols, it calls on authorities to protect them—at least when they belong to certain communities. The document urges education administrations to revise school regulations, explicitly include freedom of religion in codes of conduct, and closely monitor centres that maintain restrictions on religious symbols.

In practice, this would reduce the autonomy of schools and expand state oversight over internal rules, all in the name of equality.

Beyond Spain, the report reflects a broader European trend: traditional principles such as secularism and equality are being reinterpreted through the lens of identity politics. What was once framed as neutrality is increasingly labelled discrimination; what was once criticised as patriarchal is now defended as “empowerment”.

For Spain’s Equality Ministry, the hijab is no longer a problem to be debated but a freedom to be enforced—and schools that disagree may find themselves publicly named and politically exposed.

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German Order Restored: AfD politician Forces Antifa Mob to Clean Up After Attack — ‘First You Lick the German Flag Clean Again’

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Left-wing violence has become a grim fact of life in Germany. Just yesterday, a suspected extremist attack on rail infrastructure brought Berlin’s southern railway line to a standstill.

Against this backdrop, a case from last year is now drawing renewed attention. The incident took place last year at the property of Philip Steinbeck, an AfD politician, who later published video footage of the confrontation on X.

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The events unfolded at Steinbeck’s clubhouse in Lübtheen, in northern Germany. According to Steinbeck, around 20 Antifa activists descended on the property, tore down the German flag from his front garden and attempted to intimidate those inside.

Instead of retreating, Steinbeck says he confronted the group and chased them off the premises. What followed stunned viewers: Steinbeck is seen forcing the attackers to clean the German flag they had vandalised, telling them, “First you lick the German flag clean again.” Moments later, the group fled.

When sharing the video on X, Steinbeck directly addressed platform owner Elon Musk, urging him to take note of what he described as politically motivated violence — and the way it is portrayed by German media.

Alongside the footage, Steinbeck wrote:

“German state media framed me as a bully.
THE TRUTH: I caught vandals desecrating the national flag on my property.
In the US, defending the flag makes you a patriot. In Germany, they try to cancel you.”

Germany’s public broadcaster NDR reacted with outrage — but not over the alleged attack itself. Coverage focused instead on the treatment of the Antifa activists, while the claim that a mob of around 20 people targeted a political opponent at his own property was largely sidelined.

NDR also reported that the teenagers involved had filed a criminal complaint against Steinbeck. The AfD politician disputes this, stating that the youths explicitly told him they had no intention of pressing charges.

The incident is further fuelled by NDR’s cooperation with the controversial propaganda network OCCRP, which has been linked to funding from USAID — a connection frequently criticised by conservative commentators for election manipulation.

For Steinbeck and his supporters, the case encapsulates what they see as a wider problem in Germany: far-left violence being minimised or ignored, while any robust response is immediately reframed as a scandal.

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France’s Alliance police union calls citizens onto the streets over rising migrant crime as Lyon rally set for January 31

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The Alliance Police Nationale union has launched what it describes as an unprecedented appeal to citizens to mobilize against what it considers an out-of-control level of insecurity across France due to rising migrant crime, with coordinated marches planned in 24 major cities on Saturday, Jan. 31.

In a national statement, the union warned that “France is sinking into insecurity,” arguing that crime is “organizing, structuring itself and becoming radicalized,” while “the State is retreating.” Alliance said police officers were continuing to protect the public “at the risk of their lives,” but without sufficient staff, adequate resources, or “real legal protection.”

“The National Police is at its breaking point, and officers are exhausted,” the union said, adding that “citizens suffer from insecurity and victims are forgotten.”

The call to action is being framed as a civic mobilization, with Alliance and other member organizations of the CFE-CGC urging the participation of citizens, internal security forces, elected officials, and victims’ associations. Together, they want to send a clear message: “STOP to promises without actions, STOP to the collapse of authority, STOP to insecurity, and STOP to impunity.”

In Lyon, expected to be the focal point of the mobilization, the union’s local leadership has painted an especially stark picture of the situation in the metropolitan area, as reported by LyonMag. According to the union, violent crimes such as homicides and attempted homicides rose by 15 percent in the Lyon area in 2025 compared with Marseille.

“Lyon and its metropolitan area have crossed a line; we’re no longer dealing with drug trafficking, but with narco-terrorism,” said Alain Barberis, departmental secretary of Alliance Police Nationale in the Rhône, in comments to LyonMag. He referred to “acts of mutilation and torture” and said, “We have truly crossed a threshold in terrorization, in the radicalization of criminal networks linked to turf wars fueled by drug trafficking.”

Barberis also pointed to what he described as extreme “everyday violence,” citing a surge in snatch thefts and aggravated robberies. He said, “60 percent of these are committed by undocumented immigrants,” he said. “We can see, therefore, that more than half of these crimes are committed by undocumented immigrants, some of whom are already subject to deportation orders, and this demonstrates a real problem with the system today.”

He argued that Lyon is suffering from a severe imbalance in policing resources. “Lyon has surpassed Marseille in terms of crime, and yet the police force is much smaller in Lyon than in Marseille,” Barberis said, adding, “We no longer have the capacity to ensure the safety of Lyon’s residents.”

Despite what he described as the “good intentions” of local government services, Barberis said authorities were “trying to empty the ocean with a teaspoon.” He highlighted “serious shortages of personnel” not only within the police but also in the justice system, saying that “the Lyon public prosecutor’s office has the same problems in terms of staffing as the Rhône police.”

“These shortcomings lead to tragedies; there are some, and there will be even more if nothing is done,” he warned.

The union’s warning comes against a broader backdrop of concern about the strain on France’s security forces. Figures published in December 2025 showed that the number of gendarmes who took their own lives rose by 24 percent in 2024, to 26 cases. David Ramos, president of GendXXI, the first professional association for military personnel in the gendarmerie, said there had been “no recent improvement in suicide management and prevention policies” and spoke of persistent “institutional inaction.”

Ramos cited increasing workloads, staff who are not replaced when they leave, poor equipment, and a growing sense of abandonment. “The more tensions rise in society, the more we are called upon, often in violent contexts,” he said, noting that gendarmes are increasingly confronted with child abuse, pornography, and terrorism, while also feeling resentment from parts of the public. “The gendarmerie increasingly feels it is losing its soul and the meaning of its mission,” he said.

Concerns about public safety have also been raised in relation to women’s security, particularly on public transport. Data released in March 2025 by the National Observatory on Violence against Women showed an 86 percent increase in victims on buses and trains over the past ten years. In 2024, there were 3,374 victims of sexual violence on public transport, with women accounting for 91 percent of victims, 75 percent of whom were under 30, and 36 percent were minors.

Recent high-profile incidents have added to public unease. In November 2025, a 56-year-old man died two weeks after being stabbed at the Perrache tram station in Lyon. The victim was attacked in front of multiple witnesses and later died in the hospital. The suspect, a 32-year-old homeless man originally from Guadeloupe, was transferred to a psychiatric unit before being re-arrested after the investigation was reclassified as a homicide.

Alliance Police Nationale said it hopes the Jan. 31 mobilization will send “a strong and clear message to the government and all political leaders.”

“We can’t say we’re at war if there isn’t an army behind it,” Barberis said. “There’s a huge gap between words and actions.”

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The courage of Iranians and the cowardice of Westerners

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This last Iranian uprising is embodied by the face of a woman with uncovered white hair. She walks among the demonstrators, a small bottle of water in her hand, her mouth bleeding from the beatings by the regime’s forces. In her shouted words: “I am no longer afraid, I have been dead for 47 years!”.

Dead since 1979.

There is a freedom that can only be gained when everything else has been lost. It is the freedom of those who have nothing left to lose and therefore, paradoxically, nothing left to defend with lies.

The number of people killed at Tiananmen Square (the last and only time the Chinese communist regime was openly challenged by its own citizens) is estimated at 10,000.

The Budapest uprising of 1956 was paid for with 3,000 dead. The East Berlin revolt of 1953 caused 125 deaths. The Prague Spring of 1968 claimed 137 lives.

In Iran, in a single week, between 12,000 and 20,000 people were killed.

For those who have always had a roof over their heads, a full plate, good health, all freedoms and the comforting certainty that tomorrow will be as warm as today, rejection becomes one of the few remaining existential risks. When survival is guaranteed, loss of status takes on disproportionate importance.

And in the West, the people who have the most to lose are also those who show the least courage when it is needed.

And those with full bellies in the West, writes the brilliant Algerian author Kamel Daoud in Le Point, allow themselves to say that in Iran people are protesting over the cost of living: “This ‘social’ economic interpretation allows everything: there is no longer any need to block our streets, universities, or concerts, nor to chant ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ and ‘Free, free Iran’ for these populations. One can simply sigh over ‘empty stomachs’ and explain that ‘those people’ are rebelling for bread.

A contemporary version of the cynical ‘let them eat madeleines’ and an expression of veiled racism: Iranians can die-ideas do not move them, only their stomachs.”

The “already dead” can no longer be bought with anything. Looking at that unveiled woman, you think of Nadine Olivieri Lozano alongside Iranian clerics, dressed from head to toe in a black chador. The image of the Swiss ambassador in Iran was taken while the regime was brutally repressing (at least 500 dead) a previous protest movement.

You think of Micheline Calmy-Rey (former Swiss president) in Iran. The foreign minister was photographed smiling broadly in a chador during a meeting with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The socialist dismissed criticism by saying: “It is not a sign of submission.”

And so, while a seventy-year-old Iranian woman with a bleeding mouth shouts that she has been “dead for 47 years,” in the salons of New York, Paris, Stockholm, Berlin, Rome and London, thousands of perfectly alive people behave as if they were already half-dead-victims of the most vile death of all: preventive death.

Iranian filmmaker Javad Ganji was assassinated last week. Why did no one at the Golden Globes care? Why didn’t Mark Ruffalo mention it? Where did solidarity go? Is it possible that the only acceptable form of courage is wearing a pin against ICE tasked with finding illegal migrants?

Courage often blossoms where people say they are “already dead.” And it is so rare in affluent circles. When everything has already been lost, courage becomes rational. When you have everything to lose, cowardice is an effective survival strategy.

And courage emerges when fear no longer has any power.

I saw the same scene, the same face, the same blood not in Tehran, but in France. In Lyon, an Assyrian refugee, Ashur Sarnaya, was murdered outside his home. Ashur had symbolically died in 2014, when ISIS’s black caliphate stole his home, his church, and his future. From that moment on, Ashur lived as a survivor, with the only weapon left to him: words, prayer, live streaming. He no longer had any status to lose-only his freedom to defend.

So in the end, we paid the price, because instead of being good and weak and well-fed, we should have been strong and just and hungry.

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UK: Ethiopian national charged after ‘sexually assaulting staff member at asylum hotel’

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An Ethiopian national has been charged with the sexual assault of a staff member at a hotel used to house asylum seekers.

Hampshire Constabulary has confirmed that it has launched an investigation into the alleged incident.

The incident is alleged to have taken place at a hotel in Southampton on Friday, January 16.

Melaku Gebresembet has now been charged with sexual assault.

The 23-year-old was remanded in custody to appear at Southampton Magistrates’ Court later.

A spokesman from Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary confirmed the suspect was an Ethiopian national.

They said: “Officers investigating a sexual assault on a staff member at Highfield House Hotel have charged a man.

“The incident, which occurred on Friday, was reported on Monday morning.”

The spokesman continued: “Following that report, officers immediately attended the hotel to take statements and identify and arrest the alleged suspect.

“We have now charged Melaku Gebresembet, 23, of Highfield Lane, Southampton, with sexual assault.”

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