2025-01-08
ESTO OCURRE EN LA CIUDAD DE HULL HOTELES PARA INMIGRANTES Y UN BRITÁNICO QUE AMENAZA A UN PORTERO CON UNA NAVAJA EXIGIENDO UNA HABITACIÓN TRES AÑOS DE CARCEL DESPUES DE ESTAR DURMIENDO AL RASO
Homeless dad threatened night porter at Royal Hotel with knife after asking for a free room
He told him: "At this point, I might as well go to prison. At least I'll get a warm bed. It's got to the point where I am willing to kill someone"
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A fired-up homeless man lost his temper and pulled out a knife because he was furious that migrants were being given a "free hotel" when he had nowhere to live and was sleeping rough on the streets.
Ben Bursell complained that it was "not fair" about "all these migrants staying there for free" – and that it had got to the point where he was "willing to kill someone" because of it all.
He went in the early hours to the hotel that was at the centre of the frightening scenes of violence and rioting in August and brazenly asked a night porter if he could have a room for free, Hull Crown Court heard.
Bursell, 36, of Anlaby Road, west Hull, admitted possessing a knife in public on November 21.
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Curtis Dunkley, prosecuting, said that a night porter was having a cigarette outside the Royal Hotel in Ferensway, Hull city centre, at about 2.20am when Bursell approached him.
"The hotel is used to house migrants and it was the scene of the violent disorder offending in August," said Mr Dunkley. Bursell started talking to the night porter and he asked whether he could have a hotel room for free. The porter said that the hotel was fully occupied.
"The defendant responded by saying that the hotel was full due to migrants being in the building," said Mr Dunkley. The porter told Bursell that this was the reason that the hotel was full.
"The defendant then said that he was homeless and it was unfair that he was sleeping on the streets while migrants had access to a free hotel," said Mr Dunkley.
The night porter said that it was nothing to do with him and that he was simply a night porter. Bursell raised his voice and said: "It's not f***ing fair, all these migrants staying there for free.
"At this point, I might as well go to prison. At least I'll get a warm bed. It's got to the point where I am willing to kill someone."
The night porter stood up and tried to finish the remainder of his cigarette quickly, to get away from Bursell. "As he did so, the defendant produced a steak knife from his trouser pocket," said Mr Dunkley.
Bursell showed the knife to the night porter and then hid it. The porter immediately went to the reception desk and tried to inform the civic radio operators of what had happened but he was unable to do so. He called 999.
The defendant was arrested nearby on Midland Street at about 2.30am. He was searched but the knife was not found on him. A search was made of the nearby area and the knife was found in an alleyway between the railway station and Anlaby Road.
Bursell was taken into custody and he told police: "It's all right. I will be out tomorrow. It's all a waste of time. All you're going to get is no comment." He declined to answer any questions.
He had convictions for 13 previous offences between 2007 and 2023. On July 29, 2023, he was jailed for three months for possessing a knife.
Oliver Shipley, mitigating, said that accommodation had been an issue for Bursell and he also had an alcohol problem. "It was a very sorry state of affairs that evening," said Mr Shipley.
"He knows there is no acceptable explanation for it. He lost his accommodation as a result of his custodial sentence. He has never been able to re-establish himself after that. It was a desperate situation on the evening in question."
Judge Alexander Menary told Bursell: "It's a concern that you are walking around the streets of Hull at 2.30am with any weapon."
Father-of-two Bursell was jailed for 146 days. He was already in custody on remand.
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