WATCH: Adam Brooks joins Epping protesters after Hadush Kebatu is freed from prison
Oct 24, 2025
Adam Brooks has told GB News that the anger in Epping is "off the charts" as locals gather to protest outside The Bell Hotel.Fresh anger was sparked amongst locals after hotel migrant Hadush Kebatu was mistakenly released from prison after being jailed for sexual assault.FULL STORY HERE.
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Adam, just give us a flavour of the mood you've been documenting
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tracking this case from the very beginning. How are local people feeling about this
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There's a lot of anger. And let me tell you now, I've just got to the Bell Hotel and there is about 150 people behind me
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The chance of get them out, save our kids are ringing out
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Everyone is in disbelief that our authorities can be this ridiculous, that this country can be so lapsed with the security of its women and its children
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Let's remember that this judge, when sentencing Habush Kabartu, said that he's a dangerous man and he risks further crime
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Now, he's somewhere in London, and women and children are at risk
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And this is just unbelievable. I can see this protest today escalating, if I'm honest
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More and more people are pulling up. The anger is off the charts. You can hear the chanting in the background, Matthew
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It's it's just surreal. I feel like we're in a I feel like we're in a movie
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You know, this country cannot be, you know, can't be this this mad
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It really can't. And how many how many how many local people are down there
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And what's your best guess as to how this protest is going to evolve in the hours and days ahead
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Look, there's 150 people or so behind me. They playing music and they chanting at the moment But as I just said there are cars pulling up there are people walking up behind me and that so you know i think this is going to become quite a big protest later tonight and what your what your read do you think more generally and where the country
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at because as i say this has been a remarkable week we haven't only had the accidental release
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of this illegal migrant we've had the illegal migrant from sudan who was found guilty of
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murdering ryanne and white we've been given the information on the small boat numbers they're now
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higher already this year than the total last year. We've had the one-in-one-out case with the Iranian
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who was removed from the UK back to France and then came back into the UK in one of the small
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boats. All of this in one week. I mean, what's your read on the national mood? The national mood
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People are starting to wake up, and I hate that term, Matt, but at the end of the day, every day
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I'm posting either a crime or a conviction from one of these so-called asylum seekers or illegal
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immigrants we have a terrible problem especially sex crimes we are importing people that do not
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know how to behave around our women and our children and the national mood you know reflects
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that now they are waking up people are scared and people are angry and the fact that we are paying
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for these people as well via our taxes you know enough is enough uh this labor government needs
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to get a firm hold on this problem call a national emergency and sort this out because you know it's
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epping today and it'll be another town tomorrow. Communities are being ripped apart by these crimes, Matt
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