MP says police have dismissed claims that men from a migrant hotel are stalking schoolgirls in affluent Home Counties town – as teachers warn children not to walk home alone
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14463699/MP-says-police-dismissed-claims-men-migrant-hotel-stalking-schoolgirls-affluent-Home-Counties-town-teachers-warn-children-not-walk-home-alone.html
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Labour MP has denied reports of young schoolgirls being approached and followed just minutes from a so-called ‘migrant hotel’.
Parents in the affluent town of Earley, near Reading, raised the alarm after reportedly seeing men behaving suspiciously and chasing schoolgirls in Maiden Place, located a three-minute drive from the Best Western Plus Moat House hotel.
In response, Earley and Woodley MP Yuan Yang insisted in a letter sent to concerned residents that she was in ‘regular contact with the police’ who had arrested several individuals over a suspected ‘public order’ issue and were ‘not in relation to behaviour against school-aged children’.
She also added that the police currently ‘have a very small number of reports and nothing that suggests endemic predatory behaviour from residents’.
However one resident who lives near the hotel told MailOnline that police officers had been knocking on nearby residents’ doors in a search of CCTV footage that may show young girls being approached.
The mother-of-two, who has lived near Easington Drive for more than a year, said: ‘I heard from a friend that some girls were being followed near a primary school.’
The primary school was approached for comment but declined to provide further information.
The Earley resident also alleged witnessing police cars patrolling around the primary school at the end of the school day – and added that another friend recently had seen a suspicious interaction between a girl from Maiden Erlegh Secondary School and a young man.
The Earley resident also alleged witnessing police cars patrolling around the primary school at the end of the school day – and added that another friend recently had seen a suspicious interaction between a girl from Maiden Erlegh Secondary School and a young man.
The 35-year-old said: ‘My friend was walking her son to school and there was this girl on her own and there was this seemingly foreign guy asking for directions to the shops, and he said, ‘you come with me, you show me,’ and my friend had to tell him ‘no’, and he walked off. This was two weeks ago.
‘We usually let our kids play outside here – we don’t allow that anymore.’
A series of Facebook posts alleging that men from the hotel have been ‘stalking’ school girls has prompted the nearby secondary school to warn pupils not to walk home alone.
In an email sent to pupils’ parents and guardians, the deputy headteacher from Maiden Erlegh School said: ‘We have been made aware that there are several social media posts regarding concerns around the conduct of some older adult males at Maiden Place.
‘We have contacted the police who have informed us that they are aware of concerns and are actioning accordingly.
‘We would encourage all students to remain vigilant and avoid walking home alone where at all possible.
We would ask that you educate your child(ren) about interacting with anyone unknown and to ensure they know what to do in an emergency.’
IT worker Shelley Johnston, 50, said she had been ‘shocked’ when she received the email from her son’s school.
She said: ‘It makes me feel really terrible, we have a nice little community and I have been really concerned. I have feared for my kids safety.
‘There is a camp that are against all migration, period. I’m not in that camp. I absolutely welcome all immigration – I work across the globe with my job and I would be delighted if more people come to this country with their skills.’
The Seven Red Roses pub, Maiden Place, has put up posters addressing residents’ concerns, saying that anyone ‘feeling harassed or distressed’ could come inside and have staff arrange safe transport home.
Staff member Ashley, 25, said: ‘We just want everyone to feel safe. There have been a lot of police about the area.’
But she expressed concerns about the dangers of potentially misleading posts on social media.
She said: ‘It can be dangerous if it’s not true.’
It comes as up to 38,079 migrants were being housed in asylum hotels at the end of December 2024, an increase of nearly six per cent in six months, according to figures by the Home Office.
Matthew Rycroft, the Home Office’s permanent secretary, announced just last month that the department would aim to ‘exit’ hotel use by the end of the Parliament, which is latest August 2029.
Sandra Bushnell, who has lived in Earley since 1970 and visits the shopping area ‘daily’, said she hadn’t seen any suspicious behaviour – but had been left spooked by reports online.
She said: ‘I haven’t experienced anything terrible – but because of the posts I’m very apprehensive, so I no longer walk here to the cafe on my own.’
In her letter to residents, Ms Yang thanked residents for contacting her about their concerns ‘about the Moat House Hotel’.
She said: ‘I understand that some of the reports, particularly those shared on social media, are quite distressing.
‘My team have been in regular contact with the police and have been made aware of arrests made last week regarding an incident not previously flagged on social media; these arrests were made on suspicion of public order but were not in relation to behaviour against school aged children.
‘All those arrested (I believe it was two or three people) have been interviewed and bailed pending a disposal decision.’
Ms Yang also said that she ‘shares residents’ concerns that the asylum system in the UK has broken down’ and believes that the Government ‘must work towards a fairer, more humane and better organised asylum system, and must not normalise the use of hotels.’
Thames Valley Police was unable to confirm the details around the reported arrests.
The Home Office declined to comment on the status of Best Western Moat House hotel.
The Best Western hotel chain was approached for comment.
Gaslighting
Introduce migrants with opposing values to our own into communities. Surprised pikachu face when issues occur. Gaslight locals when voicing concerns.
What could ever possibly go wrong with this?
I’m sure in these peoples cultures it’s perfectly normal to follow girls. We just have to get used to it, if the government and police accept it so should we.
This country needs a fucking revolution. Government only ever makes things worse.
Nothing but gossip and tittle tattle
‘ I heard’ ‘someone told me’
More racist click bait on r/uk
What a surprise
> *three-minute drive from the Best Western Plus Moat House hotel*
Asylum seekers in hotels but who mysteriously own cars…
Shit stirring post. Still not voting Reform.
“I heard from a friend that she said someone told her she saw someone being followed”
Okay, mate.
There’s so much bullshit surrounding migration in this country, they tried to attack Starmer for not giving out enough information about Southend but if you actually read the criticism it’s that it allowed online hysteria and misinformation to foster.
Who could have foreseen that importing the third world en masse would lead to outcomes such as these?
I don’t get it, has any girl actually gone to the police to report something? Or is this all Facebook stirring?
Our government is fucking useless
usual Paranoia. Your nearest sex offender is likely white male whose been part of your community for decades.
Don’t buy into the “they’re not the same!” because it never ends.
next it’s that weird village down the road with two types of cheese! The monsters!
Reading – LOL.
Reading and Bristol are the two locales full of high minded liberals who pushed these policies for years. They weren’t all that bothered when the midlands and the North were the location of choice of new arrivals.
Don’t trust your lying eyes people. That’s their advice. Brilliant.
I wish every MP were sent to the places these migrants are coming from and walk the streets where they live. These issues are GUARANTEED. These men have no concept of consent. All they understand is a stick.
So, have any girls actually made these complaints?
So from what the article actually states –
– The police have investigated and are patrolling the area – obviously taking the accusations seriously.
– There are no ACTUAL reports of it happening, it is all ‘I heard it from my friend’ or unverified social media posts
– There have been some (two or three) public order offences but nothing to do with school children.
– The only actual first hand account was about a man asking for directions and asking to be led to the shop, only to walk away peacefully when the girl said no.
Typical Daily Fail scaremongering.
Collections of sexually repressed and sexually frustrated Males age 16-50 from cultures where Women are seen as subservient to Men, all holed up in a place with perpetual rest and being fed three very nutritious meals a day with nothing to do and now with access to largely open Internet access.
What could possibly go wrong?
I jest ot course, but this is not coming from a small town mind and paranoia. I have decades of experience of independent travel in most of their origin countries to know who we are dealing with here, to see the recipe for disaster brewing.
Germany, for example, has had this proven to it numerous times since 2015. I actually warned about these factors in 2015 when all this began, spotting that the mindset of politicians in Europe was one of – “Its okay, they’re just like us only with a darker complexion. They’ll make good obedient German workers.”. It was incredibly naive. It seems a certain percentage did, the industrious ones who built businesses and channelled their energies.
I would suggest that putting them to work right away is partly the solution, but am loathed to do so considering that this is exactly what big business has sought- a vast surplus of labour to dip into.
It’s just a matter of time, it will happen eventually, and then ‘lessons will be learned ‘ NOT
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