49-year-old Trevor Lloyd, who was part of a mob that stormed a hotel housing asylum seekers during rioting in Rotherham has been jailed for three years. The Recorder of Sheffield, Judge Jeremy Richardson KC - who has already sentenced several people in connection with the Rotherham incident - said “you were part of a violent mob, and you were playing your part to the full". Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00You were part of a violent mob, and you were playing your part to the full.
00:07You were not being directed by others.
00:11You were doing this of your own volition.
00:15You were at the front, not towards the rear.
00:22You have brought shame on yourself and the town in which you live.
00:29You must be punished for what you did.
00:33In this case, because of your participation in the attack on the hotel,
00:39in which vulnerable people were housed,
00:43and you went into those premises,
00:48I can, so it seems to me, move upwards.
00:52But due to the mitigation and all the circumstances,
00:57I will not impose a notional sentence following a trial
01:03higher than four and a half years' imprisonment,
01:06of which six months is in respect of the racist element.
01:11Trevor Lloyd, the sentence I pass upon you
01:14for your participation in this dreadful example of violent disorder
01:19is three years' imprisonment.
01:22I also impose the necessary statutory charge.
01:26The hearing is now concluded.
01:28Please make your way to the door, and an officer will collect you from there.