Rotherham residents still in shock after attack on asylum hotel

With police tape blocking its entrance, the Rotherham Holiday Inn Express remains a crime scene ten days on from anti-immigration riots.

The hotel houses asylum seekers and was targeted in a wave of far-right protests that swept across England following the murder of three young girls in Southport on 29 July, and the spread of misinformation that falsely claimed the attacker was a recent migrant.

Many in Rotherham look back on the violence in disgust, but some are still sympathetic to the grievances of those involved.