The migrant invasion has destroyed Britain's once-idyllic seaside towns - Andy Jones

Holiday resorts in Britain are already being uniquely hit by migrant crime, writes the journalist and broadcaster

As many of the estimated 48,000 migrants who swarmed over beaches in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta are hastily dragged back into Morocco, many in Europe will breathe a sigh of relief.

The chaos has still left 72 people dead, many of whom drowned crossing the water or were crushed as they tried to scale fences and breakwaters. While we may imagine we might never see these appalling scenes on a UK beach - despite an average of sixty undocumented arrivals every day at Dover - the rising numbers of undocumented men will still mean bad news for residents in their own seaside communities.

Holiday resorts in Britain are already being uniquely hit by overloads of migrant crime for several reasons. After all, our struggling holiday resorts have lots of vacant hotels and hotel owners desperate to fill them with guaranteed Government incomes. The New Economic Foundations reported this year that net spending on domestic holidays taken by UK residents has dropped by £2.6billion (8 per cent) since 2022, despite the two hottest years on record.

In Bournemouth, even though tourists still make eight million visits per year, struggling hotels have been cashing in on the asylum boom. New arrivals now fill all the rooms of the 79-room Chine Hotel, the 102-room Roundhouse Hotel and the 123-room Britannia Hotel in the town.

But, with an estimated 600,000 undocumented men on our shores according to Migration Observatory - many of whom from cultures like Afghanistan, Somalia, Eritrea and other countries with appalling attitudes towards women and unfamiliarity with women in bikinis - this year has seen a slew of rapes in British seaside towns by asylum seekers, notably in Bournemouth, Brighton and Margate. All featuring young women, alone at night, separated from their friends, and being raped by one or multiple men.

Astonishingly, Dorset Police confirm that between January 1, 2025, and March 31, 2026, there were eight sexual offence reports where an offender was specifically from the town’s asylum accommodation hotels.

In July last year, Syrian refugee Mohammed Abdullah, 19, raped and assaulted the woman after bodily carrying her into the cubicle as she screamed for help.

In June, Chret Callender, 28, from Trinidad - a failed asylum seeker living in the Britannia Hotel - followed a lone female home through the town’s once idyllic pleasure gardens after a night out in the early hours. He forced himself on the young woman after turning up drunk at her home, despite her begging him to stop.

Why this explosion in asylum attacks on women in the area? Seaside towns with their heady mix of packed beaches and relaxed attitudes allow creeps a unique opportunity to get close to young women, many of whom may be enjoying alcohol. In April 2024, 20-year-old Gabriel Marinoaica was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for raping a 15-year-old girl in the sea off Bournemouth Beach, taking her out of her depth so she couldn’t escape. Last month, Dorset Police arrested a man of “Indian descent” after a man reportedly swam up to a family group and touched a woman in her 40s on the bottom over her clothing.

Similarly, in Brighton, three asylum seekers, Abdulla Ahmadi from Iran, Ibrahim Alshafe, and Karin Al-Danasurt from Egypt, were each jailed for at least 18 years after they attacked a lone woman who was “staggering in the street” near Brighton beach on October 4 last year. They filmed the whole attack on a mobile phone before going home to have a ‘celebratory’ barbecue. The victim, who jurors heard was "led into the darkness to be used as a sexual plaything", says the men repeatedly spat into her mouth during the attack.

Incredibly, when police arrested Al-Dansurt at his Government-supplied accommodation, they found he had documents in his possession stating he had been found guilty of murder in Egypt. Sentencing the three men at Hove Crown Court, Her Honour Judge Christine Henson KC said each of them "participated in an entirely predatory and callous attack".

In Margate, Eritrean national Amer Mohammed, 24, was jailed last year after sexually assaulting a female stranger he met along the town’s historic promenade. After pouncing on her in a side street, the victim fought him off and managed to escape before flagging down a passing vehicle, driven by an off-duty police officer. Mohammed, who had been staying in the Glenwood Hotel in Cliftonville at the time of the attack, was jailed for nine years.

In Bournemouth, after lengthy local protests, the Roundhouse Hotel in Bournemouth will be emptied by October. Bournemouth MP Tom Hayes told The Sun the closure of the asylum hotels is “really important for the recovery of the tourist economy”.

However, with many more men coming, and illegal men simply being moved to houses of multiple occupancy in residential areas, these attacks are unlikely to go away.