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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Hannah Al-Othman

Factory worker jailed for role in riot at Rotherham asylum seeker hotel

Group of men stand facing riot police outside hotel.
Disorder at the Holiday Inn Express in the Rotherham area on 4 August. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA

A man who shouted abuse at police guarding a hotel housing asylum seekers and celebrated as missiles were thrown at officers has been jailed for three years and four months, as more people were sentenced for their part in the riots on Tuesday.

Sheffield crown court heard that Lee Crisp, 42, of Mount Road, Barnsley, was part of a group that gathered outside the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers, Wath-upon-Dearne, Rotherham.

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