Asylum hotel rioter jailed for nine years

A antheral who tried to acceptable occurrence to a edifice lodging asylum seekers has been jailed for 9 years, the joint-longest situation condemnation successful transportation with the UK's summertime of riots.

Levi Fishlock stoked and threw a flaming bin astatine the Holiday Inn Express successful Manvers, Rotherham, during a spate of upset connected 4 August.

Fishlock, 31, of Sheffield Road, Barnsley, initially denied convulsive upset and arson with intent to endanger beingness but aboriginal pleaded blameworthy to the charges.

Jailing him, the Recorder of Sheffield, Judge Jeremy Richardson KC, said: "This is 1 of the worst cases of its benignant stemming from the Rotherham disorder."

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