JAIL TIME
Jail sentences totalling more than 100 years dished out to thugs involved in far-right riots across Britain
A judge has urged prosecutors to get even tougher with sentences of up to ten years for rioting
JAIL sentences totalling more than 100 years have now been dished out to scores of thugs involved in far-right riots across Britain.
The landmark was reached yesterday as a yob who kicked a female police officer got three years.
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Connor Whiteley, 26, was the 50th person sent to prison for joining the mob violence. Jail terms now total 110 years.
And the judge sentencing him urged prosecutors to get even tougher with sentences of up to ten years for rioting, rather than a five-year maximum for violent disorder.
Hull crown court heard Whiteley led “racist, hate-fuelled mob violence” in the city.
He charged to the front of a mob at an asylum seeker hotel before kicking a female officer’s shield.
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Recorder of Hull John Thackray insisted: “The prosecution do need to look, for those who are playing front and central roles, at the alternative charge of riot rather than violent disorder.”
In Sheffield, dad-of-three Trevor Lloyd, 49, got three years for joining a mob targeting a migrant hotel after he was sent out to buy dinner.
Disabled Glyn Guest, 60, cried as he got two years and eight months’ jail in Rotherham for pulling a female police officer to the ground.
And groundworker Dominic Capaldi, 34, who pelted police with bricks outside a migrant hotel in Bristol, got 34 months.
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Meanwhile the first woman was jailed for whipping up online hate with a Facebook post to “blow up” mosques.
At Chester crown court Julie Sweeney, 53, of Church Lawton, Cheshire, admitted hate-related communications and got 15 months.
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At Manchester crown court Warren Gilchrest, 52, and Liam Ryan, 28, both admitted violent disorder.
They are in custody awaiting sentencing.
And at Birmingham crown court Muslim counter-protester Habeeb Khan, 49, denied having a fake AK-47 and sending death threats to far-right leader Tommy Robinson.
He was remanded in custody for a November trial.
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