Migrant hotel resident guilty of sexual assaults on two women in Falkirk

A migrant hotel resident has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two women in the Falkirk in the space of little over an hour. Muhammad Sheikhi, 23, targeted his victims after they left different nightclubs in the early hours of a Sunday morning last November. He was later arrested in his room in the Cladhan Hotel, which has been the scene of repeated rival protests involving pro and anti-immigration demonstrators. Sheikhi was placed on the sex offenders register ahead of sentencing on 29 June and remanded in custody. Stirling Sheriff Court heard that he targeted the first woman at a railway bridge on Kerse Lane in Falkirk, where he hugged her, repeatedly kissed her on the face and mouth, and put his hands under her skirt. He then sexually assaulted a second woman in Kerse Lane and the nearby Bellsmeadow skatepark, where he pinned her against a tree before putting his hands under her clothing. Both of his victims were in their early-20s. Sheikhi, who came to the UK by boat and was being accommodated at the Cladhan Hotel by the Home Office, had denied the charges and told police he had just been "roaming around" as he did not have anyone to socialise with in his hotel. He denie