An asylum seeker living in a taxpayer-funded hotel is running a lucrative graphic design business from his bedroom and is believed to be earning thousands from corporate clients, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Extraordinary images obtained by this newspaper of the man's room at the Thistle City Barbican, in London, shows a MacBook laptop and iMac computer, Selfridges bags and a £580 Louis Vuitton wallet.
The migrant, understood to be originally from Sudan but to have spent the last two years living in Dubai, was said to have been working on 'Silicon Valley-style' pitch decks on a third Mac laptop at the time the footage was taken.
A source who filmed the room said the man spoke openly about the fact his asylum claim was based on persecution for being gay.
The source said: 'I asked if the claim was legitimate, and he said "of course not".'
