Hundreds of asylum seekers who have been housed in taxpayer-funded hotels have appeared in court charged with criminal offences, damning new documents have revealed.

The offences ranged from rape to robbery and GBH to theft, with at least one in every 100 hotel-housed asylum seeker being hauled before magistrates this year.

One migrant allegedly tried to kiss a 14-year-old schoolgirl after arriving eight days earlier on a small boat.

Court records, obtained by The Sun, showed at least one in every 100 migrants housed in the hotels have been brought before a magistrate this year with a total of 339 cases.

Courts across the country were monitored for the first six months of 2025 and defendants who had given their address as one of the 105 known asylum hotels were noted.

Of all the court cases monitored, 29 related to sexual crimes, including seven alleged rapes, one proven incident of exposure and one of attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child.

A further 64 violence-related offences were recorded, those included assault, GBH, ABH, possessing a knife and imitation firearm possession.

At least five asylum seekers who had been staying at hotels appeared in court on Wednesday on charges including sexual assault, assault by beating and also theft.

An Ethiopian migrant who had arrived eight days after arriving in the UK on a small boat was remanded in custody at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court after allegedly trying to kiss a 14-year-old schoolgirl.

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Small boat crossing the English Channel

A Libyan asylum seeker, living at a Home Office hotel, also appeared at Bournemouth Crown Court on Wednesday and admitted to threatening a staff member with a knife.

The cases are a small percentage of all heard by magistrates every year in the UK - with The Sun's figures showing that 1.37 million defendants appear in the lower criminal court.

The figures show that migrants are about half as likely to appear at a magistrates' court compared to the general population.

The analysis detailed about two per cent of the UK population appear as defendants each year, whereas one per cent for those at the 105 hotels.

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Responding to the findings, Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said the Government was putting women and girls at risk and had "lost control of our borders".

"This shocking Sun investigation lays bare the risk posed by these illegal immigrants," he said.

"Women are being raped and sexually assaulted and even police officers attacked. We know that the nationalities crossing the Channel are 24 times more likely to wind up in prison than average."

Philp said Yvette Cooper had let in "the highest-ever number of illegal immigrants so far this year".

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"Women and girls are at risk as a result," he said.

"I'm sick of the crime being committed by illegal immigrants coming from France. We just need to deport them all immediately upon arrival, whether to Rwanda or elsewhere."

One hotel in an expensive part of London, which is known as a hub for people working illegally as food delivery drivers, has had 32 men appear in court for offences.

Those include charges of assault of an emergency worker and theft.

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Philp said he had visited the hotel to expose illegal working there and that the security guard was "more interested in throwing me out" than stopping it or the "rampant criminality".

More than 50 cases which were observed were related to thefts, some from high-end shops and convenience stores, along with phone snatching.

The Home Office said that there was no excuse for "people who abuse our country's hospitality and commit crimes after arriving here".

It comes as Sir Keir Starmer met German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to agree a change to law which allows authorities to investigate and act against storage facilities used by people smugglers to conceal small boats.

The Prime Minister said engines and boat parts were being stored in Germany and that after Brexit, the law "didn't accommodate for a country that had left the EU".