"What is the point of paying our council tax if it is being directly used to fund a place which houses alleged sex attackers?"
"We need to take a stand. Enough is enough."
"Our taxes are funding the hotel, the police and all the costs associated with it. That's not what it should be for."
"The feeling is so strong that the threat of prison does not worry me. I will go to jail for this."
Residents of Epping are staging repeated protests after a High Court decision allowed migrants to remain at the Bell Hotel. Locals have linked local safety concerns to the hotel, citing an ongoing sexual-assault trial of an individual lodged there. Several residents have publicly vowed to refuse council-tax payments and some say they would risk imprisonment to force eviction. Political figures and media outlets have weighed in, with calls for mass deportations and criticism of the Home Office assertion that migrant human-rights placements can outweigh local safety concerns. Tensions and fears about further arrivals are rising locally.
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