Migrant assaulted girl, 14, in caravan after offering drugs and whisky

A hotel migrant assaulted a 14-year-old girl at a holiday park after offering her group of friends whisky, cannabis and cocaine. 

Thabani Maposa, 45, came into contact with the group of children aged 12 to 15 at a holiday park in Weymouth, Dorset.

After offering the children drugs and alcohol, he told the children to touch him in certain areas to get his attention if they saw him around the holiday park. 

Demonstrating with the victim, he said they should touch him on the shoulder if they wanted cannabis and grab his waist if they wanted whisky or cocaine.

The migrant put his arm around the back of the victim and touched her shoulder, then grabbed her waist.

Police were called and arrested Maposa, who denied assaulting the girl.

But he failed to turn up to his court case and has gone on the run from the law.

A warrant has now been issued for his arrest after he was convicted of assault by beating in his absence.

Maposa first encountered the group of children when he knocked on the caravan door at the park.

The asylum seeker claimed he was staying with his young family in the next door caravan and told them to keep the noise down.

The group, who had been drinking, agreed to his request but he then invited himself in and went over to where they were gathered.

He told them he could get them booze or class A drugs and asked the victim to join him for a demonstration.

He then proceeded to touch the victim on her shoulder and waist, demonstrating where they should touch him if they wanted alcohol or drugs.

At that point, an older boy came out of a separate room in the caravan and told Maposa to 'f*** off'.

Since Maposa had taken his jacket off, the boy threw it outside and when the defendant went to retrieve it locked the caravan door behind him.

Maposa's current address was given as the Roundhouse Hotel migrant accommodation in Bournemouth, about 30 miles away from the holiday park.

His nationality and immigration status were not revealed in court.

The incident took place at just before midnight on May 23 last year at Seaview Holiday Park.

Prosecuting, Elizabeth Valera said: 'On that Friday night at just before midnight a number of families had arrived on holiday at that location.

'The parents were going in between the caravans and in this particular caravan there was a number of children aged 12 to 15. They had been allowed to drink by their parents.

'Mr Maposa appears in the caravan and says he is staying in the adjoining caravan and can you keep the noise down.

'They say no problem but he doesn't leave the caravan and the allegation is that he touched the 14-year-old girl.

'The defendant in his police interview accepts he went into the caravan but he denies touching her.'

The victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she felt 'scared' by Maposa's behaviour while he offered them illicit substances.

She said: 'He was a tall, muscular black man who spoke English with an accent but he was understandable.

'He said we have children in the caravan next to us and do we mind keeping the noise down.

'We said no problem but he then invited himself into the caravan when no one told him he could come in.

'He said to us if we were good he would offer us whisky, cocaine and weed.

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'He said he would show us the signals if he finds us in the club area.

'He asked me to be the demonstrator so I stood up and he said if you want weed to touch me here and he grabbed my far shoulder.

'Then he said if you want cocaine and whisky touch me here and it was my far hip.

'He pulled me in and was very close to me and I could feel his body next to me.

'I didn't want him to touch me. I was really scared and didn't know what was going to happen.

'My friend, a boy, came out of the room and heard what was going on and he took his jacket and chucked it outside.

'He went to get his jacket back and my friend told him to "f*** off" and locked the caravan door behind him.'

Another friend who was in the caravan told the court: 'He started touching her on the hip and shoulder. I could tell she was uncomfortable in that situation.'

The court heard that Maposa claimed in his police interview he had asked to come inside the caravan to speak to an adult as the group were so noisy.

He said the children were 'lippy' with him and he told them he did not care if they were taking drugs or drinking as everyone was doing it at the holiday park.

He said he was only in the caravan for five minutes and did not touch the child.

But he was found guilty of one count of assault by beating by magistrates who said the victim's evidence was 'credible'.

A warrant has been issued for Maposa's arrest.

Magistrate chair Martyn McCarthy said: 'We give credence to the fact that there was touching as both (girls who gave evidence) were credible witnesses.

'Having heard the evidence and it being noted that the defendant didn't appear the court finds the defendant guilty. The warrant appeal has been granted.'

Maposa is just one of a number of migrants living at the Roundhouse Hotel in Bournemouth to have been convicted of a crime. 

The hotel has become a hotspot for disturbances, often committed by the asylum seekers who are being housed there at taxpayers' expenses. 

Scores of asylum seekers from the Roundhouse have been charged with criminal offences in recent years, including two men jailed this month for running a county lines drug operation from their rooms.

Mohammed Dawood and Alsayid Abdul-Khalik used the Roundhouse Hotel in Bournemouth, Dorset, to deal crack cocaine and heroin.

The pair, who are Egyptian nationals, had sent bulk messages to over 100 customers advertising drug deals in the days leading up to their arrests.

Dawood, 26, had a previous conviction for possessing a class A drug. He was also involved in a mass brawl in which six people were stabbed outside Bournemouth & Poole College in January 2024.

He was jailed for 37 months and Abdul-Khalik for 44 months by a judge at Bournemouth Crown Court.

Two other asylum seekers living at the Roundhouse Hotel were jailed last year for chasing staff with knives because they didn't like they food they were served.

Ibrahim Zouari, 35, and Houssine Nouira, 32, 'aggressively' approached staff demanding they serve them lunch that met their dietary requirements.

But when they were told it would not be possible as the kitchen was serving breakfast at the time, the pair 'exploded'.

Tunisian migrant Nouira began the violence by picking up part of the breakfast display and throwing it at staff.

Libyan migrant Zouari then brandished a chair before picking up a knife and chasing staff. Zouari was jailed for 15 months and Nouira 12 months.

Bournemouth's three migrant hotels have been regular targets for protests.

Locals claim that people, especially young women, feel scared to go into the town at night because of the number of lone male asylum seekers being housed there.