Watch: Beer bottle thrown at van at asylum protest

Camera footage captured the moment an anti-asylum seeker protester threw a beer bottle at a police van, before trying to remove a hotel sign from the ground.

Keith Silk, of Torrington Drive, Loughton was one of up to 500 people who gathered in Epping outside The Bell Hotel on 17 July 2025.

The 34-year-old, who was found guilty of violent disorder and criminal damage, was earlier sentenced to two years and 11 months imprisonment at Chelmsford Crown Court.

He is the 11th person - and final person - to be sentenced for violent disorder offences relating to that day.

In the footage, another man can be seen jumping from a moving police van outside the hotel.

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