A town on the outskirts of London was rocked by protesters who descended on a hotel housing asylum seekers for the second time in four days on Sunday night amid anger about a migrant accused of sexual assault.

Protestors gathered outside The Bell Hotel in Epping on Sunday night as demonstrations continued over its use to house asylum seekers.

Police have hit out at spending £100,000 to tackle ‘hooligans’ hijacking protests over the Epping migrant hotel. Disorder over the past week has seen police vans and an undercover car smashed as hundreds of protesters took over the small Essex town.