Posted by Two asylum seeker hotels just half a mile apart and majority owned by the same Israeli tycoon are thought to have raked in £100 million from UK taxpayers.
The Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza in West Drayton, near London’s Heathrow airport with 1,080 rooms between them have housed migrants for more than four years.
The four star hotels which used to be packed with tourists are believed to have been used by asylum seekers for longer than almost any other major UK hotel.The Government signed contracts to take over each of them in either late 2020 or early 2021 as a soaring number of migrants continued to cross the Channel in open boats.
MailOnline visited both hotels this week and discovered them seeming to be fully occupied, and security guards keeping outsiders away.
Migrants said they were generally happy with their ‘very nice’ rooms, but frustrated about long delays in dealing with their asylum applications.
But local residents were less impressed and spoke of their anger about so much public money being used to house and support asylum seekers.
Analysis of Land Registry and financial records revealed a complex web of UK and Jersey registered companies behind both hotels.
Property investor Amir Dayan, 50, is the majority owner of both hotels and has previously been described as one of Israel’s richest men
The Crowne Plaza hotel in West Drayton is thought to be one of the UK’s longest opening asylum hostels in a major UK hotel
Asylum seekers pictured in West Drayton, many of whom are living in the hotels in the area
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