Hundreds of far-right protesters have packed the streets of Epping for the third week in a row.
The Essex village has been gripped by anti-immigration marches after an asylum seeker was charged with attempting to kiss a 14-year-old girl.
Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, 38, who denies the charges, had been staying at The Bell Hotel for less than a week.
The hotel, which once housed asylum seekers, has since become the target of protests and far-right incitement, with 12 arrested so far.
Other protests outside migrant hotels have sprung up across the capital, with beer cans thrown at another migrant hotel in Stanwell near Heathrow Airport.
Protesters wrapped in England flags chanting, ‘Tommy Tommy Robinson,’ returned to the hotel at around 6pm.
They packed the steps outside the village council, where a live stream showed the men singing to Sweet Caroline before hanging up an England flag.
‘We’re gonna clear them out,’ a protester shouted through a megaphone.
Mum Stacey Pearson, 24, told Metro she was at the demonstration to ‘keep up the pressure’ to get the hotel closed. The council voted last week to do so, awaiting approval from the Home Office.
Pearson said: ‘I have a six-year-old daughter and I don’t feel safe. I also have nieces who are a bit older locally. It’s unsafe.
‘I want it closing down now. We won’t stop until it is. We will be loud and proud to get it closed down. It’s a disgrace.’
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Dad Ryan Callaghan, 38, said he believed the gatherings had been ‘inspirational’.
The builder said: ‘We need change. We need it closing down. It’s hammering it down with rain and that won’t stop us. I hope the migrants can hear and see us.’
But the far-right protesters in Epping were easily outnumbered on Sunday by anti-racism counter-demonstrators.
‘Where’s your Tommy gone?’ the anti-racists chanted, after the far-right leader who had promised to bring ‘thousands’ to Epping failed to show.
No counter-demonstrations organised by Stand Up to Racism or other groups are known.
Simon Atkinson, 45, attended the protest on Sunday and said they would continue for the ‘foreseeable’.
He said: ‘We’re not stopping. We will keep going and going. Look how peaceful it is tonight without the far-left.’
Many of the protests are against the use of hotels as lodgings for destitute asylum seekers, which the government uses due to a housing shortage.
More than 150 gathered outside The Park Hotel in Diss, Norfolk, over the issue last Monday, days before an anti-migrant rally erupted in London.
Protesters clashed with the police outside The Britannia International Hotel in Canary Wharf, which will soon house asylum seekers.
They later had eggs thrown at them, seemingly from people living in the nearby high-rises.
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