Fifteen people have been arrested after a protest at a hotel housing asylum seekers descended into chaos on Friday.
Merseyside police said the protest was “initially peaceful” before a separate group of people turned up to make trouble. A police van was burnt and three people received minor injuries.
It comes after a man with a foreign accent allegedly made inappropriate remarks to a 15-year-girl.
At around 6:30 p.m. on Friday, a protest and a counter-protest were staged at the Suites Hotel on Ribblers Lane in Prescot, Knowsley. The hotel has been used by the Home Office to house asylum seekers since January 2022….