A government plan for lone women in hotel quarantine to get female guards fails to stop harassment.
Another woman has been sexually harassed in hotel quarantine despite new rules designed to prevent it.However, Lorna Farmer, 28, walked out of the Hilton Garden Inn at Birmingham airport a week ago, after a guard offered to "entertain" her in her room.
He asked to see her in her pyjamas, and asked to enter her room, she says - knocking repeatedly on her door and sometimes sitting on the floor outside it.
Asked whether he was still working for Mitie, and whether he might now be working at a different quarantine hotel, a spokesperson said she could not share personal information about staff.Lorna Farmer's first quarantine hotel, the Hilton Garden Inn at Birmingham airport Another woman, who is still in quarantine, says that a male security guard knocked on her door twice in one evening, giving a transparently bogus reason for wanting to talk to her.Women in hotel quarantine to get female guards
In July, the government said that if female guards were unavailable, lone women should be escorted by two male guards, "with each guard chaperoning the other to ensure appropriate behaviour". According to the Security Industry Authority only 10% of licenced security guards in the UK are women.or jammer in case your door doesn't have a second lock. These should prevent anyone entering, even if they have a master key. Always use the peep hole or door chain before opening the door to anybody.at your quarantine hotel and find emergency contact details - eg whistleblower numbers on their website. Note names, ID numbers or identifying features of anyone harassing you.
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