Private security guards carried out their first patrol in Essex today after male migrants have left women scared to go out alone.
The Reform-led county council has hired contractors to monitor migrants on the streets of Colchester, Braintree and Chelmsford – with the first walkabouts starting this morning.
Locals in Colchester say that on days when asylum seekers are brought into the city from MDP Wethersfield – a former RAF base in the Essex countryside – the atmosphere can feel very different.
Women are reportedly being told to ‘cover up’, girls are allegedly being filmed on mobile phones and groups of young men
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