A convicted football yob has been jailed for taking part in a city centre riot when a baying mob clashed with Black Lives Matter supporters.
Just six months before participating in the shameful scenes in Newcastle, Michael O'Brien was one of a group of Newcastle United supporters who stormed a pub in Burnley after an away game. He was subsequently jailed for two years for that violent disorder.
Now O'Brien, who volunteers at a youth football club, and two other men - one of them, like O'Brien, said to be wearing a cap showing affiliation to "football risk groups", have been locked up for their part in a loud and intimidating disturbance in June 2020.
