Another council could soon take legal action to evict asylum seekers living at a migrant hotel, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Wirral Council has confirmed it has opened up a ‘legal file’ to investigate the possibility of taking enforcement action to prevent a Holiday Inn Express hotel in its area being used as migrant accommodation.
The move is a potential headache for the Home Office which fears that any successful action to force asylum seekers to be moved from a hotel could set a precedent, leading to other councils winning similar claims.
It follows the initial success of Tory-run Epping Forest District Council in Essex winning a temporary injunction on August 19 this year ordering asylum seekers to leave The Bell hotel in the town within 24 days.
The council took its action after an Ethiopian man at the hotel sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl and a woman, leading to a series of protests in the town this summer and copycat demonstrations outside other migrant hotels across the country.
