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Hull Crown Court has been busy as people involved in the disorder on August 3 are sentenced for their actions

These are the people who have so far been locked up for a total of more than 50 years for their roles in the “ugly mob violence” and “mass stupidity” that brought horrific scenes to Hull city centre.

In the three weeks since the shameful disturbances on Saturday, August 3, dozens of suspects have been arrested, with many charged and more than 20 have so far been sentenced for taking part in the disorder.

During the riot, a police officer was permanently scarred during angry clashes with officers, thousands of pounds worth of damage was caused to streets and shops – some of which were also raided and looted – and fires were started.

On Tuesday, Humberside Police Assistant Chief Constable Thom McLoughlin said: “We are still investigating the disorder and violence that hit the streets of Hull City Centre earlier this month and we are continuing to pursue those who were involved and brought chaos to our city that night.”

These are the offenders who have so far been locked up for their roles in the disorder after appearing at Hull Crown Court:

David Wilkinson – jailed for six years

David Wilkinson
David Wilkinson (Image: Humberside Police)

David Wilkinson, 48, of Lorraine Street, Hull, admitted violent disorder, attempted arson and causing racially aggravated criminal damage.

The court heard that Wilkinson was at the front of a group that confronted police outside the Royal Hotel, in Ferensway. He threw missiles towards police and spat at officers. He held a weapon that looked like a martial arts nunchuck.

Wilkinson forcefully pushed two large wheelie bins towards police. He was seen trying to set fire to a bin on top of a pile of tyres at a garage in the Milky Way area and he was part of a group that attacked a car containing three European men.

John Honey – jailed for four years and eight months

John Honey
John Honey (Image: Humberside Police/PA)

John Honey, 25, off Park Grove, off Princes Avenue, west Hull, admitted six offences, including three of burglary that featured a break-in at the Lush shop in Jameson Street, involving stealing bath and cosmetic products, as well as raids on the nearby Shoezone and O2 shops, both with intent to steal.

The troublemaker and looter boasted he was “famous” – and asked a probation officer if she wanted his autograph – after he was repeatedly pictured wearing a distinctive St George’s Cross shirt “all over social media” at numerous places around Hull city centre during the disorder.

Honey admitted his key role in the large-scale disturbance, including an incident in which a BMW car was badly damaged along with criminal damage to nine vehicles, including a Ford C-Max, a Renault Clio, a VW Passat, a Jeep, a Seat Leon, a BMW 520d, an Audi A4, a Chevrolet and a Skoda Octavia.

Steven Love – jailed for three years and four months

Steven Love
Steven Love (Image: Humberside Police)

Steven Love, 41, of Middleton Street, off Spring Bank, Hull, admitted violent disorder.

Love was at the front of the group in Ferensway and he played a prominent role in the violence. He threw missiles and picked up an empty wheelie bin and hurled it at the line of police.

Love was bitten by a police dog and he was taken to hospital for treatment.

Stuart Randall – jailed for three years

Stuart Randall
Stuart Randall (Image: Humberside Police)

Stuart Randall, 55, of Jervis Road, off Holderness Road, east Hull, admitted violent disorder, burglary at the O2 and Lush stores, two offences of causing racially aggravated criminal damage and another of causing criminal damage at Specsavers and Holland and Barrett.

Randall was “front and central” throughout in the violence and public disorder. He waved a police shield and behaved erratically in Ferensway and he pushed a burning bin towards police in Jameson Street.

At a garage in the Milky Way area, he used a sledgehammer to smash vehicles. The owner and his family barricaded themselves inside the garage until managing to escape to a nearby garden.

In Jameson Street, Randall used a bar stool ten times to damage a window at Specsavers, causing it to shatter, and he used a fire extinguisher to smash glass at Holland and Barrett. Randall was prominent in the looting of O2 and Lush.

Connor Whiteley – jailed for three years

Connor Whiteley admitted violent disorder and assaulting a police officer on August 3
Connor Whiteley (Image: Humberside Police)

Connor Whiteley, 26, of Park Row, off Park Street, Hull, admitted violent disorder and assaulting a police officer as an emergency worker.

The father-of-three was part of the “utterly deplorable, disgusting public disorder” that was shown in shocking video pictures to the court that were “depressing and horrifying” to watch.

He kicked a policewoman to the ground during a nasty confrontation and he was also part of throwing missiles at police and the looting of cars that were parked at a garage where nine vehicles were damaged.

David Buckle – jailed for three years

David Buckle has been jailed for three years
David Buckle (Image: Humberside Police)

David Buckle, 39, of Southgate Way, off Saltshouse Road, east Hull, admitted violent disorder.

Buckle was prominent at the front of a group outside the Royal Hotel, and he was “draped in an England flag and a camouflage balaclava”. He was aggressive and abusive and he was shouting and gesturing towards police and throwing missiles.

He was arrested on the day of the disorder and bailed but he later handed himself in.

Ben Chapman – sent to a young offenders’ institution for two years and eight months

Ben Chapman admitted violent disorder
Ben Chapman (Image: Humberside Police)

Ben Chapman, 20, of Stockleigh Close, Bransholme, Hull, admitted violent disorder. He was in breach of a community order imposed in June for offences including assaulting police. The sentence included a consecutive four months for assaulting a police officer as part of breaching the community order.

The court heard that Chapman threw “multiple” missiles, including a bottle and a can, at police, as well as a sandbag, which “did not make it very far” and hit a fence. He was “right in the thick of it” through his behaviour and he was “needling” police officers.

Chapman had a branch in his hand, trying to use it to hit the police, and he unsuccessfully tried with others to remove a bin from the ground by kicking and pulling it. He was masked at times.

Christopher Douglas – jailed for two years and eight months

Christopher Douglas
Christopher Douglas (Image: Humberside Police)

Christopher Douglas, 35, of Avenues Court, off Victoria Avenue, west Hull, admitted violent disorder and possessing cannabis.

Douglas was “front and central” in the trouble and was seen throwing missiles at the police, pushing officers, shouting abuse and being aggressive. He was “grandstanding” by holding a police riot shield and “triumphantly waving it above his head, to the obvious delight of the crowd”.

Douglas threw a bag of rubbish at the line of police and he was one of two or three people at the centre of the crowd aggressively throwing objects and being abusive.

Andrew Stewart – jailed for two-and-a-half years

Andrew Stewart was sentenced to two and a half years in prison
Andrew Stewart (Image: Humberside Police)

Andrew Stewart, 37, of Anlaby Road, west Hull, admitted violent disorder. He threw bottles and stones, some of which hit the protective shields of police officers, and he was running towards them and back. He pushed a large burning bin towards police near the hotel but there was no evidence that he set the bin alight.

Stewart played a part in directing the looting of shops such as the O2 phone shop, where an estimated £40,000 worth of phones were stolen.

Brandon Kirkwood – sent to a young offenders’ institution for two-and-a-half years

Brandon Kirkwood was sentenced to two and a half years
Brandon Kirkwood (Image: Humberside Police)

Brandon Kirkwood, 20, of Downing Grove, off Preston Road, east Hull, admitted violent disorder. He was “front and central” in the disorder, shouted abuse, threw multiple objects towards police and pushed a large blue rubbish container in Ferensway near the Royal Hotel.

Daniel Mennell – jailed for two years and three months

Daniel Mennell
Daniel Mennell (Image: Humberside Police)

Daniel Mennell, 36, of Belmont Street, Hull, admitted violent disorder. He played a prominent role in the disturbance outside the Royal Hotel and he picked up rocks and stones from shrubbery opposite the hotel before throwing them towards police. He joined a line of other people and took a selfie picture at the hotel.

John Nunan – jailed for two years

John Nunan, 36, of Hermes Close, east Hull, admitted violent disorder. He played a prominent role throughout and aggressively confronted police near Queen Victoria Square and in Ferensway. He threw multiple missiles, including a glass bottle, towards police and pushed a large wheelie bin towards them.

Travis Whitelock – jailed for two years

Travis Whitelock
Travis Whitelock (Image: Humberside Police)

Travis Whitelock , 23, of Brisbane Street, off Hessle Road, west Hull, admitted violent disorder. He played a prominent role throughout and pushed a street litter bin onto a burning pile of rubbish on the ground. He threw missiles and pushed a large wheelie bin – with its contents on fire – towards police. He kicked a moving police van.

Jermaine Glover – jailed for two years

Jermaine Glover has been jailed for two years
Jermaine Glover (Image: Humberside Police)

Jermaine Glover, 23, of Cranswick Grove, off Marfleet Lane, east Hull, admitted violent disorder and arson. He was aggressive towards police outside the Royal Hotel and he was shouting and gesturing and helping others to push bins into a police cordon. He threw missiles, including a bottle, and he was rushing towards and barging police and encouraging others.

Outside a garage in the Milky Way area, a fire had already started but Glover put a pallet onto a pile and he also put tyres on top of a cordon of tyres created by those involved in the disorder.

Jordan Murray – jailed for two years

Jordan Murray has been jailed for two years
Jordan Murray (Image: Humberside Police)

Jordan Murray, 26, of Grasby Road, off Holderness Road, east Hull, admitted violent disorder, two offences of burglary at the O2 and Greggs stores, and another offence of possessing cannabis.

He was “persistently” in various locations during the trouble and he was prominent at the front of the group in Jameson Street, running at police with a long metal bench, which he threw towards the line of police.

He behaved aggressively to police throughout and he was present when a garage was targeted in the Milky Way area. Those at the garage, including children, barricaded themselves inside and were in fear for their safety.

Jarrod Farrah – jailed for two years

Jarrod Farrah admitted violent disorder in Hull city centre on August 3
Jarrod Farrah (Image: Humberside Police)

Jarrod Farrah, 32, of Portobello Street, Hull, admitted violent disorder. He was outside the Royal Hotel and he lunged towards police in an aggressive way in Queen Victoria Square. He was with others who threw missiles but he did not do so himself and he was at the front of the group. He gestured and shouted and moved towards the police and lunged towards them.

Joshua Hobman – jailed for two years

Joshua Hobman admitted violent disorder
Joshua Hobman admitted violent disorder (Image: Humberside Police)

Joshua Hobman, 33, of Wenlock Street, west Hull, admitted violent disorder.

t disorder. He threw missiles in Ferensway, including a drinks can, and he punched out at police. He was “in the thick of it” during disturbances and he was also near shops that had been looted.

Hobman had been “milling about” for much of the time but he did throw a can of alcohol, which he bitterly regretted, the court heard.

Michael Campbell – jailed for 20 months

Michael Campbell admitted violent disorder in Hull city centre on August 3
Michael Campbell (Image: Humberside Police)

Michael Campbell, 56, of Icelandic Close, Hull, admitted violent disorder. He was at the front of a group of people confronting police outside the Royal Hotel. He was aggressive towards police and was shouting and gesturing.

He used a bicycle as a “barricade” and to fend off a police dog. He was bitten by the dog on his right lower leg.

William Riley – jailed for 18 months

William Riley
William Riley (Image: Humberside Police)

William Riley , 64, of St Aidan’s Way, off Preston Road, east Hull, admitted violent disorder and assaulting a police officer as an emergency worker. He was part of a crowd acting aggressively and he threw eggs as well as handing them out to others, who were also being aggressive. He shouted abuse to police.

Riley punched another man in the face area and, when he was detained at a multistorey car park in George Street, he moved towards a police officer, and shouted “What do you want?”

Riley rushed at him “in a fighting stance” before punching him in the jaw, causing no injury. He was “brought under control” shortly afterwards. He later claimed that he was acting in self-defence.

Corey Holloway – sent to a young offenders’ institution for 18 months

Corey Holloway
Corey Holloway (Image: Humberside Police)

Corey Holloway , 20, of Belmont Street, Scunthorpe, admitted violent disorder. He played a prominent role confronting police in Ferensway and he was violent and aggressive towards officers. He armed himself with a traffic cone and threw it towards police. He took hold of a rubbish container and pushed it towards police.

Jackie Miller – jailed for eight months

Jackie Miller is the first woman to be locked up at Hull Crown Court over the August 3 riot
Jackie Miller (Image: Humberside Police)

Jackie Miller, 57, of South Garth, Little Weighton, near Skidby, admitted using racially aggravated threatening words or behaviour. The mother-of-three and grandmother became the first woman to be locked up at Hull Crown Court after the disturbances in the city centre.

She shouted repeated racist comments about “P***s” because she was angry that her car window had been broken during a “truly shocking” confrontation. She got “carried away” because she was annoyed that police were seemingly doing nothing about the damage to the car, the court heard.

She clapped towards the crowd and said: “This is your police force, everybody.” She asked the police why they did not go and “pepper spray a P***”. She told them: “You are just as bad as the P***s. You don’t look after your own.” She told the crowd: “They don’t look after their own.”

Hull Daily Mail

The two men were among 20 people arrested during the protests on August 3 in Nottingham

Two men have been sentenced for threatening a man during protests that took place in the centre of Nottingham. The Crown Prosecution Service has released sentencing details for Tony Campion, 29, and David Witney, 39.

Both men appeared at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court to answer charges relating to unrest in Nottingham on August 3. Campion and Witney were among 20 people arrested during the far-right rally and counter-protest.

Campion pleaded guilty to charges of using threatening words or behaviour with intent to cause fear or provoke violence for their part in an escalation of hostility involving an Asian male victim. Campion pleased guilty at an August 16 hearing, being sentenced to four months’ imprisonment.

Witney pleaded guilty during a hearing on August 22 and was given a three-month sentence, suspended for 18 months. Witney was also ordered to complete 200 hours of unpaid work, attend five days of rehabilitation requirement, complete a six-month alcohol treatment programme and to engage with the probation service.

Paul Dixon, 35, also pleaded guilty to the same charge whilst Dominic Lane, 46, pleaded not guilty. Lane will face trial in October whilst a fifth defendant, 81-year-old Keith Edwards, was also charged in relation to this incident and will appear in court on September 6.

Janine McKinney from the Crown Prosecution Service said: “The arrests, charges, convictions and sentences we have seen over the last weeks make clear the consequences for those criminals on our streets and on social media. These individuals have paid the penalty that awaits anyone caught wreaking such havoc.

“We will continue to work at pace, alongside partners in the criminal justice system, to put anyone whose conduct has crossed the line into criminal behaviour before the courts to face the full consequences of their actions.”

Nottingham Post

Two men from a “mob intent on disorder” launched an “industrial sized wheelie bin” at riot police as violence gripped Bolton town centre.

Marcus Foster, 24, and Stephen Barrow, 54, had both been on Nelson Square on Bradshawgate on August 4 amid “grotesque, racist, far-right” inspired disturbances across the country.

Bolton Crown Court heard how Foster had been seen with a group of men around the square in front of a group of police in riot gear.

Prosecutor Duncan Wilcock said: “He had an object in his hand, and he threw that object towards the line of police officers attempting to disperse the protesters.”

Mr Wilcock said this “narrowly” missed the head of a mounted officer.

Both Foster and Barrow, who appeared before the court via video-link from prison, were then seen to push a “large wheelie bin full of rubbish” towards the line of officers.

Mr Wilcock said an officer tried to stop the bin with his foot before more came forward to help him.

Both Foster and Barrow had been “wearing disguises” on that day in Bolton

In the days after the outbreak of violence police began to trawl through CCTV footage to find the identity of the people involved.

Foster was arrested on Wednesday, August 7 after video footage caught him throwing a “missile” at police while Barrow was arrested at his home in St Helens on Saturday August 10.

Mr Wilcock said: “The officer commented at that stage that he didn’t seem surprised by the officer’s attendance.”

Having been identified, both were brought before the courts and pleaded guilty at the first opportunity.

Foster, who has 16 previous convictions for 33 offences including dangerous driving, assault, possession of a knife and attempted wounding with intent, confessed to violent disorder.

Barrow, who has 21 previous convictions for 25 offences including affray and football related public order offences, admitted to the same crime.

Mr Wilcock read out a community impact statement from Assistant Chief Constable Wasim Chaudhry of Greater Manchester Police.

He said that the protests had apparently been sparked by the horrific recent stabbings in Southport and were promoted by “groups identified as far-right in regards to their ideology.”

The statement said that Muslim, Jewish and other communities across Greater Manchester had been deeply alarmed by the disturbances, with many people fearing to go to town centres.

Muslim officers had been fearful about going out to work while police staff of all backgrounds had been put under huge stress, while firefighters had had to work overtime.

The statement said: “The unprecedented levels of violence my officers have experienced is unacceptable.”

Isabelle Haddad, defending Barrow, of Dilloway Street, St Helens, said that he had earned credit for his guilty plea and was remorseful for his actions.

She said: “He tells me he regrets what he did that day and he assures me he is not part of any far right group.”

Ms Haddad said that Barrow had now lost his job but accepted he had “only himself to blame.”

Niamh McGinty, defending Foster, of Oswald Street, Chorlton, said he also deserved credit for pleading guilty and that he was “realistic” about his fate.

She said: “He essentially maintains he was in the was in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

Ms McGinty told the court that Foster, a would-be professional boxer, accepted he was involved in “an appalling display of violence towards police who were only trying to de-escalate matters.”

But she said Foster had told her: “it was not racist motivation from his perspective.”

The Honorary Recorder for Bolton Judge Martin Walsh accepted that both had earned credit for their guilty pleas.

But he reminded the court of their “utterly misguided and totally unjustified” actions after protests broke out after the tragic events in Southport.

Addressing the men, Judge Walsh said: “Each of you were part of a mob that was intent on carrying out serious violent disorder.”

He added: “The context within which the incident of violent disorder occurred is also a seriously aggravating feature and cannot be ignored.

“Much of the violence was motivated by those seeking to promote a grotesque, racist, far-right political agenda.”

Judge Walsh jailed Foster for three years and Barrow for 28 months.
Bolton News

Jack Fowler was sentenced to two years in prison at Newcastle Crown Court

A masked dad who waved a St George’s flag while confronting police at the Sunderland riot has been jailed.

Jack Fowler, 24, was part of the mob approaching the line of officers during the disorder in Sunderland city centre on August 2.

Omar Ahmad, prosecuting, told Newcastle Crown Court: “He’s seen approaching the police line and shouting abuse. He’s seen waving and encouraging others to approach the police line.”

He said Fowler, who was at Keel Square and the mosque, was part of the crowd approaching the line of officers while others are throwing missiles – however he did not throw any himself.

The court heard how the defendant was waving a St George’s flag and shouting “Who’s streets, our streets”. He was also heard to say: “This is going to be constant all summer” – while referring to the disorder.

The Recorder of Newcastle, Judge Paul Sloan, said there was also footage of him confronting a line of officers and blaming politicians for letting in killers and paedophiles.

When he was arrested on August 10, Fowler said: “I’m not going to lie, I was there but I did not throw anything. I didn’t cause any violence or threaten anyone.” He said he wore a balaclava so he was not targeted.

Mr Ahmad said Fowler stated he was at the protest with his girlfriend and he had travelled there from Newcastle. He said he left via Sunderland Metro Station when it began to get dark.

He said he admitted shouting “Who’s streets, our streets” but did not believe this to be violent disorder.

Fowler, of Northbourne Street, Elswick, Newcastle, pleaded guilty to violent disorder during a previous hearing at South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court in South Shields.

Penny Hall, defending, told the court that Fowler wasn’t violent himself and did not throw anything. She said he accepts he would have encouraged others by being there and chanting.

She said there is footage of him moving his girlfriend away from an argument and someone else away from the police. She said that, although he’s clearly involved, there are parts where he’s trying to stop anything further happening.

Ms Hall said: “It’s right to say he’s made progress in his personal life since then because he’s in a settled relationship with his girlfriend and they have a 15-month-old child. He does have a number of health conditions – severe ADHD, anxiety and a personality disorder.”

Judge Sloan sentenced Fowler to two years in prison.

the Chronicle

A grandmother who shouted at police using “truly disgraceful” racist slurs has become the first woman to be jailed in connection with violent unrest in Hull.

Jackie Miller, 57, of South Garth, Little Weighton, East Yorkshire, was heard shouting repeatedly at a line of police officers while ranting at them during the disorder on 3 August.

Hull Crown Court heard the grandmother, who was handed an eight-month jail term after pleading guilty to racially aggravated public disorder, had unleashed the “diatribe” in front of her 15-year-old daughter.

Five other men were jailed for violent disorder at the hearing on Friday.

Michael Campbell, 56, Daniel Mennell, 36, Jarrod Farrah, 32, Ben Chapman, 20, and Joshua Hobman, 33, all pleaded guilty to the charge.

Prosecutor Jeremy Evans said Miller had been “clearly demonstrating racial hostility referring to the asylum seekers the police were present to protect”.

Hull Crown Court heard a hotel on Ferensway housing migrants was targeted as officers formed a protective line to guard it, while shops were looted on Jameson Street, after the killing of three girls in Southport last month.

Footage was played in court showing the 57-year-old cleaner approaching a line of officers holding riot shields and repeatedly shouting racially-abusive comments at them.

Judge John Thackray KC told Miller she had used “truly disgraceful words” and the footage was “truly shocking to watch”.

Her defence barrister, Rachel Scott, told the court the 57-year-old, who has three children and two grandchildren, was “disgusted and ashamed of herself”.

The court heard one of Miller’s daughters was “so disgusted” by her mother’s behaviour that she “doesn’t want to have a relationship with her after this”.

Mr Evans said that earlier that day Campbell had positioned a bicycle horizontally in front of him “providing a makeshift cordon to fend off officers and a police dog”, which had subsequently bitten him during the incident.

Footage showed Campbell, of Icelandic Close, Hull, being tackled to the ground by a police dog at the front of a line of police officers, who were guarding the hotel on Ferensway.

Defending Campbell, his barrister Michael Forrest said the father-of-six was a family man who was “utterly disgusted with his actions”.

He said the 56-year-old “doesn’t know why he involved himself” in the violence having gone into the city to buy a suit.

Sentencing him to 20 months in prison, Judge Thackray told him his offending was “motivated by hostility based upon race”.

‘Idiotic’ behaviour

Daniel Mennell, 36, was jailed for 27 months.

The court heard the drunk labourer, who was prominent at the front of the unrest, threw tiles at police.

In mitigation, his defence barrister, Charlotte Baines, described his behaviour as “idiotic” and said he was “ashamed” having set himself back into his “old offending ways”.

Jarrod Farrah, 32, was jailed for two years after he behaved aggressively towards police by “lunging” at them.

His barrister said the father-of-two was “thoroughly ashamed of his actions, having let himself and his family down”.

Sentencing all three at the same time, Judge Thackray told them: “I watched all the videos concerning each of you and they are depressing and horrifying to watch”.

The judge heard Ben Chapman, 20, of Stockleigh Close, Hull, and Joshua Hobman, 33, of Wenlock Street, Hull, also threw missiles at police.

Chapman, who was serving a community order for assaulting an emergency worker at the time of the unrest, repeatedly kicked a bin that was fixed to the ground in an attempt to remove it in a bid to use it as “a missile” but was “unsuccessful”.

The 20-year-old was sentenced to 28 months detention in a young offenders institution for violent disorder, in addition to serving the remaining four months of his previous offence. In total, he was jailed for 32 months.

Hobman, who aimed a punch at an officer’s shield and threw a drinks can at police, was jailed for two years.

But the judge said his sentence would be reduced because he was the sole custodian of his nine-year-old son.

BBC News

A self-employed gas fitter who watched hours of rioting outside a Rotherham hotel while filming the violence on Snapchat turned on officers when he was bitten by a police dog “in an area of particular tenderness”, his barrister told Sheffield Crown Court.

Christopher Rodgers, aged 38, of Millmoor Road, Barnsley, was jailed for two years (Friday, August 23, 2024) by a judge who heard how he did nothing but film for most of the events of August 4 outside the Holiday Inn Express, which was housing more than 200 asylum seekers.

But, as officers were trying to clear pockets of those involved, Rodgers was in group of people who threw missiles at the police in a nearby housing estate.

The court heard how he was also aggressive towards officers as they were arresting him.

Adrian Strong, defending, told Judge Jeremy Richardson KC his client had seen the afternoon as something of a “social occasion”, adding: “There was chatting, there was talking, there was high spirits and alcohol started flowing.”

Mr Strong said his client’s attitude changed when he was bitten three times by police dogs, one “in an area of particular tenderness”.

The court heard how, after he was bitten by the dog, Rodgers shouted: “Why are you refusing to take an Englishman to hospital?”

The barrister said: “He can’t apologise enough for his behaviour on that day and to the police officers in particular.”
Sheffield Star

Sadie Lauren Metcalf pleaded guilty to affray and causing racially aggravated alarm, harassment or distress

A racist woman hurled abuse at people in the street before launching a shelf unit and plant pots at police.

Sadie Lauren Metcalf, 30, of Beulah Terrace, Scarborough, appeared at York Magistrates’ Court on Monday, August 12 and pleaded guilty to affray and two counts of causing racially aggravated alarm, harassment or distress. Magistrates heard she shouted racially abusive obscenities at people in the street and when officers went to arrest her, she threw furniture and plant pots at them from a balcony.

The incident took place on the afternoon of Saturday, August 10, when Metcalf targeted people walking in the area of Roscoe Street, Scarborough.

Following reports from disgusted members of the public, officers attended an address in the town to arrest Metcalf. They were met with abuse, foul language and objects thrown from the balcony including a wooden shelf unit.

Metcalf was arrested and taken into custody where she was charged and remained in custody until she was jailed on Monday. She was sentenced to a total of six months in prison including 26 weeks for affray and eight weeks each for the racially aggravated offences, all to run concurrent.

She was also sentenced to six weeks in jail for a separate offence of theft after she admitted stealing from Sainsbury’s on July 6. This will also run concurrent with the other sentences.

Gazette Live

The court heard that Louis McGrother went out to join a peaceful protest but ‘the mob mentality took hold and he got carried away’

A Middlesbrough rioter who wheeled a lit waste container at a line of police, has been jailed.

Louis McGrother, 22, was captured shouting and kicking out at the police, before he got hold of the plastic bin. Along with other rioters, McGrother lit the the plastic Biffa waste container and pushed it at the police corden on Linthorpe Road.

He was captured on bodycam footage as officers held up their shields to protect themselves, after the riot turned violent and missiles were thrown at the police, on the evening of August 4. The police corden was formed to try and stop rioters breaking away onto Clarendon Road.

Days later, on August 12, McGrother walked into a police station and handed himself in. He had seen himself on the video that police released to the media; it showed McGrother, clearly visible in green shorts and a blue jumper, pushing the bin alongside other rioters. McGrother took the clothes he was wearing in the footage into Middlesbrough police station.

He refused to answer police questions but later pleaded guilty violent disorder. He has one previous conviction for four driving offences, after he crashed into a Ford Focus on the M11 in June 2022. McGrother was banned from the roads at the time and he failed to stop after the crash or report the accident.

A warrant was issued for his arrest after he failed to turn up to court in Essex, and he was handed a community order. On Friday afternoon, McGrother’s partner and his mother watched from the public gallery as Teesside Crown Court heard that he was taken into prison on remand after appearing at Teesside Magistrates on August 13.

In mitigation, Joel Wootton said that McGrother had gone to the pre-arranged meeting point at the Cenotaph to take part “…in a peaceful protest. “The mob mentality took hold” Mr Wootton said, “he got carried away.”

McGrother’s barrister said that his client felt a “great deal of regret” after seeing himself in the footage “acting the way he was. He knows he has let everyone in the town down. He has a great amount of affection for Middlesbrough.”

The court heard that McGrother’s employer wrote a character reference for him – although he has now lost his job. His mother and his partner also submitted references to the court, which said that he is a “well-balanced man who takes his family responsibilities seriously; and that he has a good work ethic.” McGrother helps to care for his partner’s child.

Judge Francis Laird KC told him: “You were acting aggressively towards a line of police officers – kicking out at them. Then you, along with others, set light to a wheelie bin and pushed it towards the police corden.

“I accept that losing your liberty and your job will not only hit hard on you, but also on those you care about. You chose to take part in an organised and large scale disorder. Eight police officers were injured; police cars were damaged; there was large scale damage to houses and to public buildings.”

McGrother, of South View Terrace, Middlesbrough, was jailed for 20-months.

Gazette Live

Mum-of-three and grandma-of-two Jackie Miller is the first woman to be jailed in Hull after August 3 disturbance


A grandmother who hurled racist abuse towards police during a “truly shocking” and “extremely hostile” confrontation with the police in Hull city centre has been jailed for eight months.

Mother-of-three Jackie Miller became the first woman to be locked up at Hull Crown Court after the serious disturbances in the city centre. She shouted repeated racist comments about “P***s” because she was angry that her car window had been broken. She got “carried away” because she was annoyed that police were seemingly doing nothing about the damage to the car, the court heard.

Miller, 57, of South Garth, Little Weighton, near Skidby, admitted using racially aggravated threatening words or behaviour on August 3. Jeremy Evans, prosecuting, said that Miller used a “diatribe” of racial insults towards the police. She shouted: “You should be round there sorting all these P***s out. They are throwing bricks at people’s cars.”

Miller made reference to the death of three girls in Southport and she said that the police’s actions in Hull were “unbelievable”. She clapped towards the crowd and said: “This is your police force, everybody.” She asked the police why they did not go and “pepper spray a P***”.

She told them: “You are just as bad as the P***s. You don’t look after your own.” She told the crowd: “They don’t look after their own.”

Miller had convictions for 22 previous offences, including assault and public disorder. Rachel Scott, mitigating, said that Miller had three children and two grandchildren. She was hard-working and she had recently been working as a cleaner, although she feared that she would, while in custody on remand, have lost that job.

Miller and her daughter were driving through Hull when the window of their car was broken with a brick at the passenger side. She got out and remonstrated with the police that they were doing nothing about the window.

Her daughter rang 101 when the window was put through. Miller made some “very unpleasant” comments to police. She got “carried away” because of the window being broken.

Miller knew that what she had done was wrong and was disgusting and she acknowledged that she had not set a good example as a parent. She had shown immediate regret and remorse.

“She is finding prison particularly difficult,” said Miss Scott. “She is just so disgusted and ashamed of her actions.” Miller had been out of trouble since 2020.

Judge John Thackray KC said that Miller was present throughout the large-scale disorder and she was being “extremely hostile” to the police. She showed “racial hostility” to asylum seekers and immigrants in her comments to the police.

The footage of her behaviour was “truly shocking” to watch because Miller used not just racist words but she was provoking violence by others. “You have a significant record,” said Judge Thackray. “There is a high level of racial aggravation here.

“Your risk cannot be managed in the community. You have previous convictions. You can’t be rehabilitated in the community. Only appropriate punishment can be achieved by way of an immediate custodial sentence.”

Miller sobbed as the sentence was passed and she looked at the public gallery as she was led out of the secure dock to be taken down to the cells.

Hull Daily Mail

A judge conditionally discharged a 15-year-old boy who pleaded guilty to using threatening words or behaviour in Whitehall on July 31.

A 15-year-old boy who swore at a police officer and said “I hope you die” during unrest in Whitehall has been discharged by a judge who told him: “Please don’t come back to court again.”

The teenager, from Kent, was arrested as officers tried to disperse the crowd who were present at the Enough is Enough protest in central London past 8.30pm when protesters were ordered to leave on July 31.

The boy put his middle finger up to police officers and called one of them a “prick”, Sevenoaks Youth Court heard.

Prosecutor James Nichols said that when the teenager was arrested there was a struggle and he told a police officer: “I hope you die you c***, watch what I do when I get through here.”

At court on Friday, the boy pleaded guilty to using threatening or abusive words or behaviour and was conditionally discharged by the judge for nine months and ordered to pay £105 in court and victim costs.

Asked why he attended the protest, the youngster, who just finished school, said: “Because against knife crime because three girls were killed in Southport.

“We thought it would be a peaceful protest.”

The court heard in mitigation that the boy had never been in trouble before and was very sorry about the incident, and that being in custody was a “devastating experience” for him.

District Judge William Nelson told him: “You made a very, very foolish decision to take part in this protest, this protest was not what the organisers led you, who participated in it, to believe it was.

“What it became frankly outside the Houses of Parliament and into Whitehall was a disgusting display of racism and violence.”

The judge added he did not consider the teenager as part of the main group of offenders but instead was “completely carried away as a 15-year-old in among a group of men who frankly should have known better”.

He said: “As a result you behaved in a way I have no doubt you would not have normally behaved in.

“Please don’t come back to court again, it’s really not somewhere you really want to be.

“Go and enjoy college and get on with your life.”

Evening Standard