An asylum seeker who was arrested on suspicion of raping a boy aged 13 has “gone missing” after being released on bail, an MP has claimed.
Police were called to a hotel in Waltham Forest, east London, last month after reports that a boy had been raped. They arrested a 39-year-old man.
Greg Smith, the Tory MP for Buckingham, claimed in the Commons that the suspect had since gone missing after being released on bail and sent to another hotel. Smith said: “Buckinghamshire council learnt third-hand from a London borough just this morning that an asylum seeker who is under investigation for a very serious offence was transferred to the asylum hotel in Buckingham by the Metropolitan Police but was not escorted into the premises
