By GB News (World News) | Created at 2025-01-24 22:46:21 | Updated at 2025-01-26 06:14:28
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Police have been forced to intervene in a sleepy Northamptonshire village after migrants were "seen hanging around" a primary school during pick-up and drop-off times.
Officers in Deanshanger have told "asylum seekers" lodged in a nearby hotel to stick to "cultural expectations" - and have vowed to "deliver some work" around "appropriate behaviours".
Locals had begun reporting "suspicious activity" in the village over the last few months - with parents left concerned over young men milling around near Deanshanger Primary School, which educates children aged 4-11.
In mid-December, a letter to parents warned of "some men hanging around outside the school during drop-off and pick-up times" and said the school was "taking this matter seriously".
The school and the hotel are said to sit just 1km apart - and are reportedly separated by an open field
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The school and the "migrant hotel" are said to sit just 1km apart, separated by an open field - and as a result, parents were told to stay "extra vigilant" and that "as an added precaution", the school "will be keeping children away from the back of the field for the time being".
Speaking to The Telegraph outside the school this week, parents said they were so concerned they temporarily stopped their children going to classes.
A 29-year-old mother of four told the newspaper that she feared the men could come onto the school's playing fields, and claimed that "every day since September, [the men have] been stood outside filming".
While more residents said that the hotel guests had left litter on the green nearby.
"I was nervous. It's not nice to not trust them, but when there are a couple of men hanging around, and I'm just alone, it's not safe. I just don't do that walk any more," a 64-year-old woman said.
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Police will be posted outside the school until the end of term - but officers claimed the move was 'not as a response to any identified risk'
The Telegraph also spoke to three of the migrants in the hotel - who said they had been staying there for four months
Two of the men, aged 23 and 29, said they were from Eritrea, while a 24-year-old said he was from Tunisia and wanted to live in Britain "because it was safe".
Northamptonshire Police said there had been "community rumours" around filming pupils - but officers had not confirmed this.
A statement from the force last month read: "We are aware of the concerns reported by people about alleged suspicious activity in Deanshanger in recent days.
"Having followed all reasonable lines of inquiry for every report, we can confirm that we have not identified any offences, increased risk or safeguarding issues at the present time.
Two of the men, aged 23 and 29, said they were from Eritrea, while a 24-year-old said he was from Tunisia
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"No one has been identified to or by the force as having committed any offences, and so no one has been questioned. We have had no evidence of any crimes submitted to us, or any verified first-person reports.
"All reports received at present have been assessed to be third-party reports, primarily based on social media posts and not by people who live in the village.
"We have had an enhanced patrol pattern in the Deanshanger area for the last three months in accordance with a number of locally identified policing priorities."
The force said it had been in contact with the school, and confirmed that officers would be posted there until the end of term at "key times", but said the move was "not as a response to any identified risk".
GB News has approached Deanshanger Primary School for comment.
