A former hotel manager has told how life inside a Manchester asylum site descended into chaos, with residents vandalising rooms, dealing drugs and even confessing to murder.
The fresh revelations come amid growing concern over who is entering Britain and what background checks are carried out on asylum seekers.
Speaking to Talk, ex-services manager Adam recalled a Kurdish resident who admitted to killing his wife and then fled his home country to escape arrest.
When Adam reported this confession, staff dismissed the claim as the talk of a “crazy man”. The resident was later removed from the hotel for smoking cannabis in his room.
Adam also described a Turkish man who moved to the site after being expelled from five other hotels for groping female staff and dealing drugs in hotels. Despite a string of serious allegations, Adam was told he could not be deported while his asylum claim was ongoing.
Tales like these, Adam said, were just part of a wider pattern of extremes inside the hotel where the behaviour of residents swung wildly from shocking to faultless.
Some asylum seekers, particularly Persian Christians, kept their rooms spotless. Others refused to clean at all, leaving toilets filthy and rooms infested with cockroaches.
He recalled one Mauritanian man who spray-painted an entire room after being denied a hotel transfer. The man was later arrested for criminal damage.
Another smashed paintings of wine bottles because alcohol was forbidden in his culture.
He said some residents abused free taxi rides to hospital appointments, using them instead to visit restaurants and cafés in Manchester’s ‘Curry Mile’.
Some treated the system “like a holiday,” including an Egyptian migrant with a travel vlog who hunted cheap flights from the UK.
While others claimed to be gay to strengthen their asylum claims, but would secretly admit to Adam they had wives back home or were caught pursuing women in Manchester.
But amid the chaos, Adam said there were clear signs of genuine suffering and loss. He recalled a Syrian pharmacist whose wife and three children were killed when his pharmacy was blown up during the civil war – a broken man who “never complained once” and was “thankful and grateful.”
Adam said the difference between genuine and false claims was clear: some were broken by loss and trauma, while others openly bragged about girlfriends, money and future travel plans.
A Home Office Spokesperson said:
“It is deeply disappointing and irresponsible that TalkTV failed to provide the Home Office with the information required to verify these allegations.”
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