Couple jailed over Stoke-on-Trent violent disorder
A man and his girlfriend have been jailed for their involvement in violent disorder that broke out in Stoke-on-Trent amid a wave of unrest in the UK.
Ciaran Lockett and Deana Evans from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, appeared at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court on Friday over the disturbances in Hanley on 3 August.
At the hearing, Lockett, 34, was given a 32-month prison sentence for violent disorder.
Evans, 32, was jailed for 20 months for violent disorder and common assault of an emergency worker.
Riot police were deployed in Hanley when violence broke out, with three officers injured.
The incident came as riots and anti-immigration protests took place across the UK at the beginning of August.
The unrest followed the fatal stabbings of three girls in Southport in July, and was fuelled by false rumours online the suspect in the killings was Muslim and an asylum seeker.
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