Sue Reid

The young man smiled as he was freed from the dock. He hugged his relieved parents outside the crown court as we, the jury members at his rape trial, went back to our lives and never met again.

It was watched by 250 supporters, from pensioners to bobble-hatted students, waving placards bearing the heart-tugging slogan: 'Jesus was a Refugee.'

The Brasserie restaurant at the Copthorne Hotel was once a much-loved family venue. Pictured: Sue Reid's tour of the Copthorne, which is now migrant accommodation

In an astonishing state giveaway, the Government is handing failed asylum-seeking families a £40,000 bribe to go home with enough money to buy a place in the sun, writes SUE REID.

The fence is hated by the European Union's bureaucrats in Brussels who refused to export to Hungary the steel spikes needed to help build it at the start of the migration crisis in 2015.

A recording from Sue Reid's live video

Last week, the disgruntled 31-year-old ran away from his home in Devon to the ferry port of Dover in Kent, from where he happily returned to France, hidden by smugglers in the back of a lorry.

At 11am yesterday, the Border Force vessel Ranger drew into the Kent port of Dover carrying 64 migrants. One will go down in history as the 200,000th migrant to reach these shores.

The Daily Mail has tracked the young man to the £134-a-night Crowne Plaza in Basingstoke. He arrived there on a Home Office coach on Saturday afternoon, 32 hours after reaching Dover.

Manchester has the third highest rate of homelessness in the country - after Birmingham and London - according to housing charity Shelter.