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Businessman Ricky Hardman was seen kicking a police van during the riot outside a Rotherham hotel housing asylum seekers as similar cases of unrest erupted across the country. A haulage business owner has been caged for two years and eight months after he was pictured in a national newspaper brandishing a plank of wood amid the horrendous riot at a Rotherham hotel housing asylum seekers. Thug Ricky Hardman was arrested after a snap of him near the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers on Sunday August 4 was published by the Daily Telegraph, a judge was told on Monday. A clip was also played at Sheffield Crown Court showing the 41-year-old defendant was part of the group attacking a police dog van during the violence outside the hotel. In the video Hardman was seen kicking out at the police van, which was being prevented from moving by people lying in front if it. He could then be seen as part of a group of about six men who violently rocked the vehicle before it managed to drive away. The Recorder of Sheffield, Judge Jeremy Richardson KC, told Hardman the “major civil disorder” was “perpetrated by an ignorant mob of which you were a part”.

via mirror: Rioter named ‘Hardman’ who brandished plank of wood outside asylum seeker hotel jailed

Cole Stewart, 18, has been jailed for 18 months after being filmed throwing a rock that hit a police officer during riots in Darlington following the Southport stabbings. A teenager seen in shocking footage “celebrating” after throwing a rock which hit a police officer during riots in Darlington has been jailed for 18 months. Cole Stewart, 18, was one of about 30 people who gathered outside a mosque in the North East town on August 5. Teesside Crown Court heard the group was chanting racist and far right slogans. Police formed a line separating the protesters from a group of about 60 Asian men who had gathered outside the mosque to protect it. Stewart, from Darlington, was seen breaking a large boulder into smaller rocks and throwing them towards officers. When one rock hit an officer on the arm, Stewart was seen “celebrating with his arms in the air”. A judge said that earlier that day social media posts had encouraged people to gather on Gladstone Street for a “protest” with the intention of approaching a mosque. In Stewart’s case, the court heard he had a “very difficult background” and denied using any racist language himself during the incident. Sentencing him to 18 months’ detention in a young offenders’ institution, Judge Francis Laird KC said: “You chose to take part in an organised act of public disorder, indeed you were at the forefront of it.”

via mirror: Teen rioter, 18, seen ‘celebrating’ after hitting cop with rock put behind bars

Dáil members call for investigation after far-right leader gave false country of birth to Canada’s immigration officers. Irish MPs have called on their government to investigate how an Irish passport was obtained by Tommy Robinson, who has been accused of inciting riots from abroad. The Luton-born far-right leader travels on an Irish passport in his real name – Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – and was believed to have qualified for it via his mother, an Irish immigrant to Britain. However, questions have been raised about the validity of the passport after an official form issued to Robinson when he was detained by Canadian immigration authorities in June stated that his place of birth was “Ireland”. (…) He called on the UK Foreign Office and Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs to liaise in relation to the accuracy of information given. “We must take on all far-right activism when we see it. If someone is travelling on an Irish passport and fomenting far-right hate then we have a responsibility to explore all methods of pressure to stop it,” Smith added. “It is concerning that someone who is inciting racist violence across Britain and Ireland appears to be travelling on an Irish passport,” said Paul Murphy, a socialist parliamentarian. “It is doubly concerning that the Canadian documentation suggests that his place of birth was falsely given as Ireland. Is that what it says on his passport? If so, his passport would have been issued on a fraudulent basis and could be revoked.”

via guardian: Tommy Robinson’s passport may be invalid, say Irish parliamentarians