Man accused of flashing and performing sex acts at window of Falkirk asylum seeker hotel

A resident of a hotel housing asylum seekers is to face trial, accused of flashing, making obscene gestures and performing sex acts out of a window.

Said Ageed, 23, is said to have intentionally and on a number of occasions engaged in sexual activity in the presence of two local civilians – a man and a woman – by carrying out a solo sex act while looking out at them through a hotel window.

The acts are alleged to have taken place at the Hotel Cladhan in Falkirk, Stirlingshire, between June 1 and August 16 this year.

The hotel has been the scene of repeated protests involving hundreds of pro and anti-immigration demonstrators.

A brick was thrown through a window of the hotel on September 9.

Ageed is also accused of making an obscene gesture at the same two people on August 16 and intentionally exposing his genitals to them in a sexual manner with the intention that they should see them.

At Falkirk Sheriff Court on Friday, Ageed, whose address was given as the Hotel Cladhan, pleaded not guilty to both charges.

The proceedings were interpreted into Kurdish for Ageed, who is on bail.

The court heard that CCTV from within the hotel showed Ageed “going in and out of a room that has been identified”, but was “not likely to be determinative” in the case.

Sheriff Alison Michie set the trial for November 7.

A number of protests were held outside hotels housing asylum seekers in Perth and Aberdeenshire, as well as Falkirk, during the summer.

The Cladhan in Falkirk and the Radisson Blu in Perth became asylum seeker hotels in August 2022.