Tag Archives: Sheffield Crown Court

Painter sentenced to nine years in prison, longest sentence ever for summer riot

A painter and decorator who fanned the embers of a fire outside a hotel in Rotherham housing hundreds of refugees and attacked police with missiles during riots has been jailed for nine years. The sentence handed down to Thomas Birley, 27, is the longest ever given to a defendant following violence that broke out in… Read More »

Engineer who attacked riot police guarding hotel jailed

A 20-year-old man who was repeatedly attacked with police shields protecting a hotel where refugees were staying has been sentenced to three years in prison. Manufacturing engineer Liam Gray was one of the men jailed at Sheffield Crown Court on Tuesday over the riot outside the Holiday Inn Express hotel in Manvers, Rotherham, which left… Read More »