Boat migrant Yousif Al-Maliki convicted of serious assault at asylum hotel

A hotel migrant who claims he is bisexual and came to the UK to flee persecution in Baghdad is facing jail for assaulting a woman in a shared dormitory. Iraqi Yousif Al-Maliki, 31, was put up at the taxpayer-funded Peckham Lodge Hotel in southeast London after he entered the country illegally. Al-Maliki’s asylum application has been put on hold and he could now face deportation after a jury at Southwark Crown Court convicted him of rape by a majority verdict…