A protest outside an asylum seeker hotel prompted demonstrations across the UK. Photo: AP PHOTO

An Ethiopian asylum seeker, whose arrest in July sparked angry protests outside the hotel near London where he and other migrants were being housed, has been jailed for 12 months for sexually assaulting a woman and a teenage girl.

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The protests outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, 30km north of the British capital, became a touchpaper for a string of country-wide demonstrations amid rising tensions over immigration.

Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu was convicted at Chelmsford Magistrates Court ear

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