Parents in a quiet Surrey village have raised concerns after a man was reportedly seen repeatedly loitering outside a primary school and approaching female pupils. The incident has since sparked wider questions about how asylum seekers are being housed under Labour’s plans to move people out of hotels and into residential areas.
Locals in Laleham, near the River Thames, contacted police after reporting that a young Afghan man had been standing near the school gate and becoming aggressive when challenged, it is reported. Parents claim he spat at them and suggested that paying £3,000 to be smuggled into the UK gave him the right to stand where he wanted. Locals claim he told them: “I’m allowed to stand where I want – I paid £3,000 to be here.”
He was later arrested and detained under the Mental Health Act after police said he ignored warnings, it is reported.
It later emerged that he had been reportedly placed in a nearby house with five other migrants.
A Daily Mail investigation found that the property, a 1920s semi-detached home, had been bought for £500,000 by a private landlord before being let out via an agent to house migrants placed there by the Home Office.
