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And basically the judge has said that the legal duty of the Home Secretary, Shabama Mahmood
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to provide accommodation for asylum seekers outweighed local concerns. There will be debate about the legal grounds that were chosen
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But the fact is the father of the abused 14-year-old girl is very, very angry indeed
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And back again in the studio is Shane Yerrell, Epping Independent Councillor
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and a spokesman on behalf of the family. You've got a statement, Shane, for us
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I have, yeah. To give the verdict today of all days when we are remembering our fallen soldiers
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just creates another level of pain. I speak on behalf of any and every father
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who has been in a similar situation. I speak on behalf of everyone in Epping
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who has come out week in, week out to try and get this hotel shut down
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because of the incidents that have happened. All the government wants to do is keep turning a blind eye and forget about it
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Well, we won't forget about it. We will keep on fighting until we get some proper justice
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17 weeks for five counts of sexual assault is disgusting on any level
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Then mistakenly letting a man out onto our streets and putting all of our child lives in danger Putting my daughter in danger again bringing back all of the trauma from the day it happened again My message to the government and
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the Home Office, this is all on you. And now, anything that happens to another child in this
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country as a result of an illegal immigrant is all on you, as you have failed to protect your own
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people and put in safeguarding measures to protect them. You can't put in the appropriate measures to
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stop people crossing our borders you know nothing about these people but you
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are fought to keep them in this hotel how much do you think that hurts me and
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hurts my daughter when you go home tonight and look at your own children
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ask yourselves how would you feel in my position Shane thank you very very very strong words and he's clearly very very angry
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he's really upset yeah we are we went into the day quite positive I spoke to
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him in the morning. Yeah, we both felt like Epping Forest was
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going to win the injunction, but yeah, it's gutting now, and it just adds, it's another insult to
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the family that have been insulted several times. And you're a local
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councillor, the mood of the local community? Yeah, there's a emergency protest tonight
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as a result of this. A lot of local parents are disgusted, the same as the family
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are. They just don't understand. You're trying to, everyone's hoping for a lifeline
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and unfortunately that didn't come
