[Crimson Dynamo]

Police have admitted escorting pro-migrant protesters to an asylum hotel at the centre of days of volatile demonstrations.

Essex Police initially denied that it had brought activists from the group Stand up to
Racism to the Bell Hotel in Epping amid claims by anti-migrant protesters that the arrival
of counter-demonstrators sparked the violence on July 17.

However, the force backtracked after being shown footage of the protesters being
escorted by officers from a nearby station to the hotel.