Case dropped for migrant hotel resident on sexual charges

The case against a resident of a Falkirk hotel housing asylum seekers, who was accused of sexual indecency, has been dropped.

Said Ageed was accused of flashing, performing sex acts and making obscene gestures towards two local people from a window at the Hotel Cladhan.

The 23-year-old had been due to stand trial at Falkirk Sheriff Court on Friday but the case will now not proceed.

A Crown Office spokesman said this followed “full and careful consideration of the facts and circumstances”.

He added that, as a result, it was decided that there should be “no further criminal proceedings at this time.”

The spokesman said: “The Crown reserves the right to proceed in the future should further evidence become available.”

The hotel, on the town’s Kemper Avenue, has been the scene of repeated recent rival protests involving pro and anti-immigration demonstrators.

In September, police launched an investigation after a brick was thrown through one of the windows of the hotel.

It began housing asylum seekers in August 2022.