Asylum seekers being housed in an Essex hotel will be moved after a council was granted a temporary High Court injunction.

Epping Forest District Council had asked a judge to issue an interim injunction stopping migrants from being accommodated at the Bell Hotel in Epping.

The injunction means the hotel’s owner, Somani Hotels Limited, has to stop housing asylum seekers there within 14 days.

The hotel has been at the centre of a series of protests in recent weeks after an asylum seeker who was staying there was charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.

In a ruling on Tuesday, Mr Justice Eyre granted the temporary injunction, but extended the time limit by which the hotel must stop housing asylum seekers to September 12.

Several protests and counter-protests have been held in

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