Hotel migrant ‘attacked woman in West End bar’

A hotel migrant has appeared in court charged with sexually assaulting a woman in a West End bar. Afghan Bashir Hotak, 23, was living in the Ibis Styles Seven Kings Hotel in Cameron Road, Ilford, at the time of the alleged attack in Simmons Bar, Leicester Square, on 29 June. Hotak appeared at Southwark Crown Court charged with sexual assault and assault by beating. He was assisted by a Persian interpreter in the Dari dialect but he could not enter…