An asylum hotel migrant who terrified a blind woman when he burst into her home has been cleared by police due to a lack of evidence.
The man, who is in his early twenties, was staying at the four-star Britannia Hotel in Canary Wharf, east London, where anti-migrant protests took place last summer.
He entered the woman’s house last August after being followed by a group of men on the street and told to ‘go back to the hotel’ where the protestors were gathered outside.
Family members of woman said she was left ‘traumatised’ by the incident and ‘feared for her life’, adding that earlier that day she had been in a coma.
Footage circulated on social media capturing the moment the ‘scary’ migrant was held by members of the public and urged to return to Britannia Hotel, which was a five-minute walk away.
A photo taken in the aftermath captured the man staring ahead at members of the public as the police detained him.
The Metropolitan Police had previously said no offences had been identified, yet changed their opinion after viewing CCTV footage, leading to the man being arrested on suspicion of common assault.
A photo taken in the aftermath captured the man staring ahead at members of the public as the police detained him after he terrified a blind woman by bursting into her home
The man, who is in his early twenties, was staying at the four-star Britannia Hotel in Canary Wharf, east London , where anti-migrant protests took place last summer
The man, who is no longer living at the Britannia Hotel, has now been cleared due to a lack of evidence.
The hotel is still open to migrants who cross the Channel on small boats.
Around 41,500 people arrived in the UK by small boats during 2025, according to the Migration Observatory.
The daughter of the blind woman, Channay Augustus, pleaded guilty to affray last year after she stormed the migrant hotel with a meat cleaver, having discovered the man inside her mother’s flat.
Augustus, then 22, was part of a group of around 20 people who allegedly tried to barge into the hotel on the evening of August 13.
Augustus appeared at Snaresbrook Crown Court, London, by video link, when she pleaded guilty to affray and having an article which had a blade or was sharply pointed, namely the meat cleaver, in a public place outside the migrant hotel.
She pleaded not guilty to threatening two hotel security guards with the meat cleaver and not guilty to assaulting an emergency worker.
Her trial is set for June this year.
