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Smiling Sudanese 'asylum seeker' set fire to hotel with 170 people inside

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A Sudanese asylum seeker has been jailed after setting fire to a hotel in Bradford with 170 people inside. Bradford Crown Court was told that Mohammed Abdalla, 28, set off the blaze after he was ordered to leave the Bradford Hotel on Hall Ings because of his poor behaviour on October 31 last year. At the time of the fire, more than 160 asylum seekers were in the hotel, while there were 10 members of staff on shift. Recorder Ella Anderson, sentencing, told the Sudanese migrant: "Your actions put all of those people at risk." TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Tayo Dasaolu, prosecuting, told the court that the asylum seeker had been hanging around the lobby with his luggage for hours, repeatedly demanding to be allowed back into his room. After being allowed to do so, the fire alarm went off, sending staff racing to the second floor of the hotel. Mr Dasaolu said: "When the security staff saw the defendant he was sitting on a chair on the landing smiling at them." The fire erupted by the te