The shameful incidents that noticed far-right rioters jailed

Britain’s crackdown over the riots sparked by the killing of three girls in Southport continued today – as more harsh sentences were handed out to thugs at the centre of the violence.

Police have arrested 483 rioters relating to violent disorder following the knife rampage which claimed the lives of Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine.

The violence has been stirred up by false claims, spread by a Russian-linked website, that the triple murder suspect was an asylum seeker called Ali Al-Shakati who arrived in the UK on a small boat and was ‘on the MI6 watchlist’.

Civil unrest first erupted outside a mosque in Southport last Tuesday and spread across other parts of Britain in the days after. 

Sir Keir Starmer has warned that rioters will ‘face the full force of the law’ and many have been charged and sentenced this week.

MailOnline looks back at the violent flashpoints on Britain’s streets that has seen thugs put behind bars for a total of more than 25 years so far.

Liam Ryan – part of an angry mob who attacked a black man

Liam Ryan, 28, sobbed in court as he pleaded guilty to violent disorder after travelling from West Yorkshire to Manchester’s Piccadilly Gardens to ‘play an active role in the disorder’.

Prosecutor Laura Peers said social media footage showed ‘a black male being confronted by a large group of white males’, adding that Ryan could be seen ‘aiming a punch towards the male involved’.

The shocking footage shows the victim being punched to the ground and kicked in the head. 

Ms Peers said: ‘Ryan was seen on the footage aiming a punch towards the male involved.’ 

Ryan, who was shaking as he wiped tears away with a tissue, was remanded in custody for sentencing at Manchester Crown Court on August 14.

Ryan Sheers – goaded police officers before he was bitten by a police dog

Ryan Sheers, who yelled ‘I pay your wages’ at embattled officers before a police dog bit him on the backside , wept in court as he was jailed for more than two years today.

The 28-year-old and his boyfriend Steven Mailen, 54, had spent the day at the bingo together before walking into the middle of the disorder that rocked Hartlepool on July 31.

Each received sentences of two years and two months in prison by a judge who told them the public were ‘rightly outraged by the behaviour seen on the streets of this country.’

At Teesside Crown Court, Sheers burst into tears when the length of the term was announced. He and Mailen, both from Hartlepool, had pleaded guilty to a charge of violent disorder and had been warned to expect jail but it still came as a shock.

Prosecutor Rachel Master said Sheers and Mailen were at the front of a crowd of people goading a line of police officers with shields and batons.

She said: ‘Over the course of 10 minutes Mailen goaded officers and used gestures and language that officers perceived to be inciting the crowd to use violence against the police.

‘He continued shouting abuse and refused to step back when asked.

‘An officer feared for his safety and that of his colleagues and struck the defendant to the leg with an extendable baton.’

At that point Sheers saw a ‘red mist’ and stepped in to defend his partner.

He was captured on video waving a finger at police officers and shouting at them: ‘I pay your wages.’ He also refused to step back and a police dog was deployed which latched itself onto his buttock, almost dragging off his shorts.

Ms Masters said: ‘This had the effect of dispersing the crowd.’

However in the melee as the dog had hold of Sheers, Mailen ran forward again and kicked a police constable repeatedly on the shins. It eventually took three officers to overpower and arrest him.

Nigel Soppitt, defending, said that both men rejected right wing ideology and as a same sex couple in Hartlepool had been the subject of prejudice.

The pair got involved in the rioting, he said, after their post-bingo lager ran out and they left home to go to the local shop, discovering there were some 200-300 people out on the streets.

Of Mailen – a care worker who is a former school governor and postmaster – he said: ‘He has no time at all for Far Right ideology.

He is in a relationship with Mr Sheers and has grown up in Hartlepool where they have suffered themselves a great deal of prejudice.’

He said that on his arrest Sheers immediately admitted to officers his behaviour had been ‘aggressive and disgusting’ and that he felt genuine remorse for his actions.

Cleveland’s Chief Constable Mark Webster sat in court throughout the proceedings flanked by some of his officers.

He issued a statement read by Ms Masters which said the damage caused in the rioting across Cleveland had amounted to an estimated £300,000 with 16 officers reporting injuries in a list that was still growing.

He said: ‘As the Chief Constable of Cleveland I can attest the level of aggression and violence officers faced and the damage to the community and property is unprecedented.’

Judge Francis Laird, KC, said that Sheers and Mailen had been ‘at the very forefront of the mob.’

He said: ‘You chose to take part in what was organised and large scale public disorder.

‘In that disorder police officers were attacked and there was large scale damage to property. Members of the public were forced to endure the devastation and chaos caused in their communities.

‘The public are rightly outraged by this behaviour on the streets of this country. For this scale of aggressive offending only a custodial sentence can be justified.’

Daniel McGuire – knocked over by a riot shield after spitting on police

The 45-year-old who spat at police and threatened to punch an officer during protests in Plymouth has been jailed for 26 months.

Daniel McGuire, of Crescent Avenue, Plymouth, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a charge of violent disorder relating to the incident on Monday.

Judge Robert Linford, sentencing McGuire at Plymouth Crown Court on Thursday, said the defendant had been drunk and returned after police asked him to leave.

He said McGuire was ‘seen to repeatedly spit at the police’ and video footage showed him ‘swearing and threatening to punch the police’.

Feleena Grosvenor, for McGuire, said that the defendant was ‘sorry for spitting and he was so ashamed during his interview he could barely watch the video’. She said he had sustained a broken arm.

During the video, he is seen goading police officers before one armed with a shield knocks him to the ground. 

Cole Stewart – wailed ‘I’m a child’ after hurling bricks at police

The 18-year-old who was seen ‘celebrating’ after launching bricks at police officers during a ‘vile and destructive’ riot.

Stewart was cheered on as he hurled missiles at riot police who had been deployed to a violent protest in Darlington, County Durham, on Monday evening.

Shocking CCTV shows the teenager repeatedly throwing bricks and other objects near North Lodge Park, with one of them striking an officer. 

The teenager wailed ‘I’m a child’ as he was pinned to the ground by police and arrested at the scene. He pleaded guilty to violent disorder at Teesside Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday ahead of being sentenced on Friday.

Heather Blair, prosecuting, said an officer ‘felt a sharp blow to his wrist’ from an object believed to be thrown by Stewart, who was then seen ‘celebrating with his arms in the air’. Durham Police said he engaged in ‘vile and destructive behaviour’.

Derek Drummond – attacked a police officer in front of a mosque

Derek Drummond, screamed ‘s***houses’ at officers as they tried to put on their protective gear during a riot in Southport last Tuesday before attacking one male PC as he tried to protect his colleagues.

The 58-year-old haulier, who called himself a ‘fool’ while handing himself in to police and has since lost his job, was sentenced at a fast-tracked hearing at Liverpool Crown Court alongside two other local men who took part in a riot in the city centre on Saturday.

The judge, Andrew Menary KC, said Drummond was part of a ‘large and unlawful mob’ who had ‘effectively hijacked’ Southport’s grief as part of the disorder.

Drummond was caught on camera punching Merseyside police officer Thomas Ball during the riot outside Southport mosque. He was also seen throwing bricks a police as part of a riot, in which more than 50 officers were injured.

Kenzie Roughley – part of a mob that attacked a police van

The 18-year-old has admitted being part of a group who left a police community support officer (PCSO) fearing for his life as they violently rocked a police van during the rioting in Rotherham.

Footage of the CCTV van being rocked from side to side, with its rooftop mast swinging alarmingly, was one of many dramatic images of Sunday’s violence outside a Holiday Inn Express housing more than 200 asylum seekers.

A neighbour of Kenzie Roughley, of Barnsley Road, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, contacted police with video footage of him punching and kicking the vehicle, and his fingerprints were later found on the bodywork, Sheffield Magistrates’ Court heard on Thursday.

Prosecutor Simon Walton said the PCSO inside the vehicle ‘described fearing for his life’.

The officer got into the driver’s seat and managed to drive it away.

Roughley yawned in the glass-fronted dock as he confirmed his details and pleaded guilty to one count of violent disorder.

The court heard how despite only recently turning 18, the defendant has previous convictions for assaulting an emergency worker and racially aggravated harassment.

He is still under youth justice supervision following the latter offence, the court heard.

District Judge James Gould refused Roughley bail and remanded him in custody to appear at Sheffield Crown Court on Friday.

Roughley was one of four people who appeared at Sheffield Magistrates’ Court on Thursday morning in connection with the Rotherham incident, which saw rioters enter the hotel through a smashed-in fire door and try to set it alight using a burning bin.

Over the course of this week, the court has heard how police estimated 500 people attended at the hotel, with around 100 actively taking part in the violence.

William Nelson Morgan – part of a mob which torched a library

Britain’s oldest rioter William Nelson Morgan, 69, and gas fitter John O’Malley, 43, were jailed for two years and eight months each in the first televised sentencing of the riots.

Morgan, a semi-retired welder, was armed with a wooden cosh as he took to the streets with a group of about 100 thugs who damaged businesses and buildings and threw missiles at police on County Road, Liverpool, on Saturday night. 

Morgan, who had no previous convictions, was told by the judge that his ‘advancing years’ did not stop him playing an ‘active part’ as part of a group ‘running amok’.

When the rioters clashed with police, ‘you were seen at the front of the mob holding in your hand… a small truncheon’, the judge continued.

‘I am sure you had [the weapon] with you to cause injury if the opportunity should arise.’ He told the court how he arrested arrest ‘with such force’ that it took three officers to detain him.

‘I think it is very sad indeed to see someone of your age and character in the dock of a Crown Court,’ he added. 

Body-worn footage showed the widower telling officers to get off him as they attempted to arrest him.

At one point he said ‘I’m f****** 70’ and an officer responded: ‘Well, why are you at a f****** riot?’

Two brothers who looted a library community hub after it had been torched by rioters in Liverpool have today been jailed. 

Adam Wharton, 28 and Ellis Wharton, 22, targeted the site on County Road, Walton, Liverpool, after it was set alight by rioters on Saturday August 3 as police officers came under attack.

Adam, who has previous convictions for 26 offences including burglary and robbery, acted as lookout, while Ellis went inside to steal computers.

The pair, of Kirkdale, Liverpool, admitted burglary and Ellis admitted assaulting a police officer.

Adam was jailed for 20 months and his younger sibling, who went into the building wearing a mask and backpack, was jailed for 11 months.

Jailing them, Judge Neil Flewitt, KC, said: ‘Although your offending amounts, in law, to the offence of burglary, your conduct is more commonly described as ‘looting’, a despicable crime in which the offender seeks to benefit from the misery of others.’

Aaron Johnson – incited violence on a live stream

Aaron Johnson admitted using racist language on a live stream he broadcast to ‘millions of people’ from outside a hotel in Stockport thought to contain asylum seekers at Manchester Magistrates’ Court.

Prosecutor Laura Peers said Johnson ‘became aggressive to members of staff’ at the hotel, adding that he told them ‘he would smash their face in’.

Ms Peers added that ‘within the stream he repeatedly refers to migrants in a derogatory manner’ and used racist language.

Johnson was remanded into custody and will be sentenced at Minshull Street Crown Court on August 21.

Shehraz Sarwar – accused of carrying a sharpened bat

A man accused of carrying an ‘offensive weapon’ during an anti-EDL gathering in Bordesley Green has denied the offence claiming it was a ‘religious staff’. 

Shehraz Sarwar was captured on Sky television footage of the events in Belchers Lane on Monday, August 5, holding a ‘wooden stick with cord wrapped around it’, Birmingham Magistrates’ Court was told.

The 46-year-old has accepted it was him but has insisted it was a religious item which he was ‘well known’ for carrying around the area for the last 11 years. 

The court also heard he had been previously jailed for a public order offence in 2016 after shouting ‘religious remarks’ on a plane as it was landing and ‘referring to the plane potentially exploding’.

Sarwar, from Saltley, formally denied the charge of possessing an offensive weapon in a public place without authority or reasonable excuse during a 20-minute hearing yesterday. 

The case was adjourned for trial on September 23. Sarwar was remanded into custody after having an application for bail refused by district judge David Murray.

Andrew Ball, defending, identified the issue in the case and said: ‘He says he has carried this item for more than 11 years.’

Philip Hoban – led chanting against anti-fascist protesters

A 48-year-old man has admitted causing racially, religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress through words in relation to a demonstration in Leeds.

Philip Hoban, of Northcote Crescent, Leeds, pleaded guilty at Leeds Magistrates Court on Thursday.

Hoban was a prominent figure in an anti-immigration demonstration in the centre of Leeds on Saturday, where he could be seen shouting at hundreds of anti-fascist protesters and leading the chanting.

Scores of police were deployed outside Leeds’s museum and art gallery, where the two rival demos were kept apart by lines of officers.

But the event passed off with no serious violence.

Hoban was remanded in custody to appear before Leeds Crown Court for sentencing on August 15.

Christopher Clayton – accused of possession of swords and knuckle dusters

A man accused of participating in two riots over the past week has been remanded into custody at Leeds Magistrates’ Court.

Christopher Clayton, 66, is accused of violent disorder in Liverpool on Saturday and outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham on Sunday.

He is also accused of possession of offensive weapons in a private place – namely swords and knuckle dusters, a court official said.

Clayton, of Station Cottages, Wakefield, will next appear before Leeds Crown Court on August 15.