Canary Wharf update.

Readers outside the UK will be aware of the many demonstrations being held regularly in over 25 towns that have recent, often illegal entry, migrants, usually unvetted, fit young men, billeted upon them in the town’s hotels.

I can’t keep up with them all so have mainly concentrated on the two nearest to my ‘manor’, Epping and Canary Wharf in London’s Docklands (formerly London Docks on the Isle of Dogs) and two outside London in towns of interest to my husband, Aldershot and Nuneaton.

The situation at the Britannia Hotel in Canary Wharf (a 4*) luxury place, is that an unknown number of young men arrived under cover of darkness and are said to be overflow from the former RAF Manston base where the dinghy boys are first taken.

Readers will remember the first of the Pink protests run by women and girls dressed in pink.

A few days ago there was consternation when one of these young men entered the home of an elderly woman, blind or partially sighted and recently discharged from hospital.  Luckily a young relative lives with her and was home at the time. Some reports describe this young woman as her daughter, other’s her neice.  As she is aged 22 and the older lady 80+ granddaughter is more likely, but loving relative is the important bit.

It was a bit hard to work out whether the two men who came to help had been the following the new migrant already because he was acting suspiciously (if he was) or they heard her calling for help. But however they got involved they ‘saw him off the premises’. The police were called. They would not arrest him, saying that as the front door was open (in the heat, while cleaning) he had committed no crime by entering, merely the civil tort of trespass.

There was a flash demonstration protesting against the lack of arrest; police handcuffed and removed a middle-aged woman (right) who refused to get off her seat on a wall.

This is a photograph of a police officer discussing his tort with the young man; comments have noticed a resemblance in expresssion to a more serious crime last year.

This morning there was news that he had been arrested.

An asylum seeker believed to be living at a Canary Wharf migrant hotel has been arrested after allegedly entering a blind woman’s flat.

The man, who has not been named, was accused of walking into the flat near the four-star Britannia Hotel on Wednesday through an open door.

Police initially took no action despite members of the public detaining him.

But the man, believed to be in his early 20s, has now been arrested on suspicion of common assault.

However the young relative, Channay Augustus, has also been arrested and charged with assault. The family describe their heritage as mixed black British so accusations of ‘far-right’ could get interesting.  Charlie Peters of GB News was at Thames Magistrates court today

The court heard that the trouble started on Wednesday evening when Channay Augustus was caring for her mother when an asylum seeker entered the flat. The man was said to have “had one hand on his genital area, another in the pocket of his hooded jumper.” (so up to no good then)

After chasing the migrant out of her mother’s house, she allegedly went to the hotel at around 6pm where she confronted a security guard. She then allegedly returned with a meat cleaver and started banging it on a metal barrier outside the hotel, the court heard.

Ms Augustus had been stabbed five years ago and is now blind in her left eye. Her fully blind mother has stage four kidney failure and had been discharged from intensive care the day before the incident. District Judge McIvor remanded Ms Augustus into custody. Charlie Peters is very reliable so one of the ages given by neighbours must be incorrect. 

Tonight journalist Jack Hadfield has seen posters calling for Justice for Channay around the area.

Also coaches taking some of these young men away from the Britannia Hotel. But what community will bear the burden of them now?

In the last 15 minutes a new batch of young men has arrived.