Locals claim migrants staying in a luxury hotel near Windsor Castle are making their lives hell with racist abuse and anti-social behaviour.
Dozens are staying at the 54-bedroom, four-star Manor Hotel in Datchet, just outside Windsor, in Berkshire.
Residents say they are the target of abuse on a weekly basis.
There have also been alleged incidents of shoplifting though police say there have been no crimes or anti-social behaviour linked to the migrant hotel.
A 24-year-old shopkeeper at Harvey’s Food and Wine, a two-minute walk from the migrant hotel, said: ‘Sometimes they are coming and taking stuff, and they go out without paying.
‘Sometimes they abuse me. They say to me, ‘f*****g Indian and f*** Hinduism’.
‘It’s one or two guys. It happens every two or three days, in the evening time. They don’t understand England, and I have seen them go back to the hotel.
‘I haven’t complained to the hotel – it’s just food they take, it’s not important. People in Datchet are usually nice.’
Other residents say they have seen police attending the hotel – which is one of 220 hotels across the UK housing asylum seekers – to break up suspected fights.
Vlad Mahki, 34, who lives across the road, said he had seen police outside earlier last month.
He said: ‘About two weeks ago, I saw police there – I believe it was because people were fighting.’
Next door to the hotel, the Nibble cafe has seen a decline in customers since the migrant hotel was opened.
Cheryl Bohdjalian, who has run the cafe for more than 29 years, said: ‘Customers have said a couple of kids have been followed home. I haven’t seen anything.’
