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Man jailed for assaulting four people at asylum hotel where he was a resident
Mohammed Sharwarq pleaded guilty to six assaults at Bell Hotel asylum accommodation and was sentenced to 16 weeks in prison, the court heard he plans to return to Syria.
- Mohammed Sharwarq, 32, pleaded guilty and was jailed after assaulting four people at the Bell Hotel in Epping between July 25 and August 12.
- Born in Syria, Sharwarq and his family fled after deaths linked to the 2011 war; he travelled via Turkey and Germany and entered the UK by boat, initially placed in a Gloucestershire hotel.
- Court documents detail assaults on staff and other residents, including punching a hotel cleaner's arm, throwing a banana that hit a cleaner's head, slapping another resident, and grabbing a hotel chef.
- The court ordered Sharwarq to serve 16 weeks in prison and pay �300 to the man and �200 to each staff member, with signed paperwork to return to Syria.
- Multiple demonstrations have been held outside the Bell Hotel, Epping, after asylum seeker Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, a 38-year-old Ethiopian national, was jailed for 12 months at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court last week.
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Court artist sketch of Mohammed Sharwarq (centre) appearing at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court (Picture: Elizabeth Cook/PA) A migrant who attacked four people at the asylum hotel where he was being housed has been jailed for 16 weeks. Mohammed Sharwarq, 32, has since signed paperwork to return to his home country of Syria ‘despite the atrocities still going on there’, Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court was told. He pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing …
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