Metropolitan Police said the events unfolded on Wednesday evening on the Isle of Dogs, when a man allegedly entered the woman’s property where her mother was staying, per the Daily Mail.
Video circulating on social media showed the man being told to “go back to the hotel” before entering, after which he was detained by nearby members of the public.
The woman, identified as Channay Augustus, 22, was accused of being part of a group of around 20 people that attempted to get into the Britannia Hotel in Canary Wharf on Wednesday evening. The hotel is currently housing migrants, per the outlet.
Augustus, of Byng Street, Tower Hamlets, was arrested Wednesday evening and later charged. According to August’s lawyer, the woman barged into the Britannia Hotel in Canary Wharf after discovering the migrant in her blind mother’s flat “moving his hands over his” genital area. After chasing the migrant away, she confronted a security guard of the hotel and had a meat cleaver in her hand, the lawyer said in court.
“Channay Augustus, 22 (28.10.02) of Byng Street, Tower Hamlets has been charged with possession of an offensive weapon, affray, assault on an emergency worker, common assault and possession of cannabis,” the Metropolitan Police said in a statement. “The charges of affray and common assault relate to an altercation at the Britannia Hotel in Marsh Wall later on Wednesday evening. The alleged victim of the common assault is a security guard at the hotel, not the man who allegedly entered her flat. Augustus has been remanded in custody to appear at Thames Magistrates’ Court later this morning.”
As the investigation continued, police reviewed CCTV and interviewed witnesses. On Friday, officers arrested the man in Hackney on suspicion of common assault. Authorities confirmed the man taken into custody was the individual who allegedly entered Augustus’s flat.
