If you are serious about protecting women and girls Andy Burnham, rethink migrant housing, says Nana Akua

Coming to a town or village near you... asylum seekers.

Many having arrived via dinghy and in most instances exclusively male and of fighting age.

And by that I mean virile young men are being moved from hotels and will be placed in towns and villages across the UK, as the Government weans them out of costly hotels. So where will they go?

Three areas have already been confirmed. 1,200 asylum seekers each at three former military bases in Oxfordshire, North Yorkshire and Suffolk.

And It turns out that two of them are less than a mile from primary schools, in direct contradiction with rules the Home Office itself published in July.

Let’s take the site where Prince William trained, RAF Linton-on-Ouse in North Yorkshire. That has a primary school, nursery and children's play area all within a mile of it.

What on earth could possibly go wrong?

Linton-on-Ouse has a population of just 600 - the asylum seekers will outnumber the population by two to one and outnumber the women by six to one. What could possibly go wrong?

MoD Bicester near Piddington is also being considered to house over 1,000 people. The residents are not happy.

RAF Barnham near Thetford is another site being considered to house up to 1,250 male asylum seekers.

John Bauer, the chairman of Barnham Parish Council, warned that some parents were already considering moving their children from Barnham School due to its proximity.

1,250 men all of fighting age with nothing to do... again, what could possibly go wrong?

What have these men all got in common? Abdulla Ahmadi and Ibrahim Alshafe, sentenced to 21 years each, and Karin Al-Danasurt, sentenced to 18 years and 6 months, were convicted at Hove Crown Court for the rape of a woman on Brighton beach.

Abdul Khan, an Afghan asylum seeker, was jailed for nine-and-a-half years at Nottingham Crown Court for grooming and raping a 13-year-old girl .

And Ahmad Mulakhil was convicted at Warwick Crown Court of the rape of a 12-year-old girl in Nuneaton.

Now I’m not saying that all asylum seekers are bad or predators, what I am questioning is the wisdom of placing thousands of male asylum seekers, allowed to roam free, around schools in villages and towns of this country.

What on earth could possibly go wrong?

If you are serious about protecting women and girls Andy, have a rethink.