27-year-old Thomas Birley was jailed for nine years for taking part in a riot in Rotherham. Judge Jeremy Richardson KC said, “It was a desire to perpetrate mob rule and commit very serious criminal offences in the process”.
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00:00What took place in Rotherham that day had nothing whatever to do with legitimate public protest.
00:10It was a desire to perpetrate mob rule and commit very serious criminal offences in the process.
00:22It is clear beyond doubt that from first to last the venom of racism infected the entirety of what occurred.
00:35The incident was part of wider national civil unrest fostered by a form of malignancy in society spread by malevolent users of social media.
00:50The disorder was racist and extremely frightening for anyone who was there.
00:57It was perpetrated by an ignorant mob of which you were a part.
01:04Your conduct and the conduct of that mob has cast a dark and ugly stain across the reputation of Rotherham and South Yorkshire.