A bus driver refused to let an asylum seeker on his bus, and then wouldn’t let another passenger pay their fare for them, before swearing abusively, it has been claimed. The other passenger has spoken to Bristol Live about the incident, which is believed to have been the first in a series of issues faced by asylum seekers being made to stay in a remote hotel near Bristol Airport.
The incidents led yesterday to the leader of an arts charity working at the hotel with more than 100 people seeking asylum in this country to complain publicly for the first time, telling Bristol Live that drivers on the Falcon bus service, which runs along the A38 between Weston-super-Mare and Bristol, were discriminating against the residents of the hotel.
Stagecoach South West, which runs the Falcon service, denied there was an issue, and said they had ‘found no evidence’ of the claims, and in fact were investigating reports of their drivers being abused.
