Police were made aware of people obstructing a coach which was parked outside a Best Western Hotel in Peckham, south-east London, on May 2 2024.
A woman who is alleged to have sat in front of a police vehicle carrying suspects after a coach due to transport asylum seekers to the Bibby Stockholm barge was obstructed said she “wanted to stop them from experiencing any more trauma”, a court heard.
During her evidence, Barbe-Wilson said she “wanted to go and stop them from being moved to Bibby Stockholm” and arrived about five minutes before she was arrested. When police first arrived at the scene, a number of people were surrounding the coach which was in a bus lane, but traffic was able to move freely down the road initially, Superintendent Matt Cox said.
The group was “three layers deep and fortified with push bikes and hire bikes that were abandoned in the road”, Mr Fulford added. The welfare of the suspects on the police carriers was a concern for him as they did not know who may or may not have needs to care for, he added.Chief Inspector Vicky Causbrook described “several hundred” people watching on at about 3pm who “weren’t able to catch buses or go about their daily lives”.
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