BREAKING: Teen charged with assaulting emergency worker during protest outside Merseyside hotel housing asylum seekers
Fifteen people were arrested outside the Suites Hotel in Ribbers Lane, Prescot, on Friday evening as a police van was set on fire and missiles, including lit fireworks, were thrown at officers.
Jarad Skeete, 19, was among those held and has now been charged with violent disorder and assault by beating of an emergency worker.
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