UK: Woman Arrested After Migrant Enters Her Home

A woman “brandished a meat cleaver” at a four-star Canary Wharf migrant hotel after a suspected asylum seeker walked into her flat, a court has heard.

Channay Augustus, 22, appeared in court on Friday charged with possessing the weapon and assaulting a security guard.

She is accused of attempting to gain entry to the Britannia Hotel on Wednesday evening after a man believed to be living there was said to have entered the house of her mother, who is blind in one eye.

The man, who has not been named but is believed to be in his early 20s, has since been arrested on suspicion of common assault.

Thames magistrates’ court heard she discovered the man inside her mother’s flat located five minutes from the hotel.

After chasing the man away, she went to the hotel at around 6pm where she confronted a security guard who was trying to calm her down, the court was told.

She returned a short time later with a meat cleaver and started banging it on a metal barrier outside the hotel, the court heard.

She also shouted “f------ asylum seekers”, the court was told, before being later arrested at her home.

Ms Augustus was charged with possession of an offensive weapon, affray, assault on an emergency worker, common assault and possession of cannabis.

Police initially took no action against the man who entered the flat despite members of the public detaining him.

“We can confirm that this is the man who allegedly entered the flat. He is now in police custody.

“A 22-year-old woman who was arrested on Wednesday evening has since been charged with a number of offences. We can confirm that she is an occupant of the flat that was entered.”

The force added: “The alleged victim of the common assault is a security guard at the hotel, not the man who allegedly entered her flat.”