A chef from Horfield who admitted disorder at a Kill The Bill Protest in Bristol last year has been jailed.
Matthew O'Neill admitted attacking police, bashing at the windows of Bridewell Police Station and fuelling a fire which was started in the wheel arch of an unoccupied police van. He told Bristol Crown Court: "You must understand it's better to hit something than to hurt people."
O'Neill, 31, of Browning Court, pleaded guilty to riot and arson. Jailing him for five years, Judge James Patrick told him: "The police are all public servants who are human beings. What has been done to them dehumanises them. You admit you went overboard."
