An anti-migrant protester who filmed demonstrations outside asylum hotels for the 'protection of women and children' has been unmasked as a convicted paedophile who once sexually assaulted a schoolgirl as she sat on his knee.

Anthony Styles, who amassed thousands of followers on his now inactive YouTube channel, AJ Audits, became a well-known name among far-right activists for his livestreaming of protests against grooming gangs and illegal migrants.

The 59-year-old most recently streamed footage from demonstrations in London and Epping following the arrest - and subsequent conviction - of an Ethiopian migrant who sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl in Epping, Essex, in July.

However Styles, from Hemel Hempstead - who uses a wheelchair due to a degenerative illness - concealed that he himself had several convictions for child sex offences.

In 2017, he was found guilty of indecently assaulting a girl under the age of 14.