Orion Building, hosting London Metropolitan University's Graduate Centre. A group of students at London Metropolitan University (LMU) who had been occupying the graduate centre at their university since the afternoon of Wednesday May 4 were evicted just before midnight on Monday by police, university security and private bailiffs. John Hughes, 35, a mature student born in the North London borough of Hackney and living in Brixton , was one of over twenty students who were sleeping overnight in the university building. A second-year student in sociology and international development , one of the courses at risk, Hughes described the police intervention at around 11:40pm: If the occupation had not been evicted, Hughes says they could have held out. "We had water, food and drinks for a while. I'm not sure for how long." Students at Aberystwyth University in Wales occupied two rooms at their university for over a month earlier this year.
Orion Building, hosting London Metropolitan University's Graduate Centre. A group of students at (LMU) who had been the at their university since the afternoon of Wednesday May 4 were evicted just before midnight on Monday by police, university security and private bailiffs. John Hughes, 35, a born in the borough of and living in , was one of over twenty students who were sleeping overnight in the university building. A second-year student in and , one of the courses at risk, Hughes described the police intervention at around 11:40pm: If the occupation had not been evicted, Hughes says they could have held out. "We had water, food and drinks for a while. I'm not sure for how long." Students at in Wales occupied two rooms at their university for over a month earlier this year.
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