Protesters clashed with police outside the hotel in Essex last week, after a man living there was charged with sexual assault.

Police have denied “bussing” anti-racism protesters to a demonstration outside a taxpayer-funded hotel housing asylum seekers in Epping - but have admitted to escoring them their “for Essex Police said it provided a “foot cordon” for protesters but said claims officers “bussed” counter-demonstrators to the Bell Hotel were “categorically wrong”.