Overview

• The third protest in a week followed the July 10 charging of 38-year-old Ethiopian asylum seeker Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu with sexual assault offences.
• Essex Police have arrested at least nine people, including 33-year-old Keith Silk and a 17-year-old, on suspicion of violent disorder and criminal damage.
• Dispersal and face-covering removal orders remain in force alongside a high-visibility police deployment around the Bell Hotel.
• The cost of policing the three rallies has exceeded £100,000, according to Chief Superintendent Simon Anslow.
• Evidence of far-right agitators from groups such as the BNP and Patriotic Alternative shows extremist elements seeking to inflame tensions.