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A person who joined in racist chants and threw objects at police throughout dysfunction in Southport has been jailed.
Tommy Callaghan, 32, of Platt Bridge, Wigan, appeared by way of videolink from HMP Altcourse at Liverpool Crown Court.
Footage was performed displaying him in a “massive and aggressive mob” on 30 July, after a vigil had taken place for 3 ladies killed in a knife assault within the city.
Callaghan was sentenced to 2 years and two months for violent dysfunction.
The riot broke out after lots of had gathered for a vigil to recollect Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, 9, who have been stabbed to dying at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class a day earlier.
Misinformation concerning the suspect shared on-line led to dysfunction in cities and cities throughout the UK.
Judge Denis Watson KC informed Callaghan he was a type of who repeated racist chants “along with your left arm and fist raised as you chanted and gesticulated in rhythm” earlier than “surging ahead on the police line”.
He added: “You picked up a part of a brick, threw it at police, then picked up a second missile even earlier than the primary had landed.”
Peter White, defending, stated Callaghan had put his fuel engineering enterprise, which employs three individuals, and the mortgaged residence he shares together with his accomplice and nine-month-old daughter in danger.
He stated Callaghan had travelled to Southport, about 25 miles from his residence, to attend the vigil.
Mr White stated the defendant had no racially or religiously prejudiced beliefs however had “gone together with the mob”.
