Majority of accounts stoking far-right violence after summer attacks located overseas

Northern Irish police attending violent disorder and riots in Belfast following the stabbing (Image: Agency)

THE majority of posts that stoked up violence and rioting in the wake of a stabbing attack in Belfast and the arrest of the man who killed Henry Nowak in Southampton came from accounts based overseas, new analysis shows.

The Guardian has found that 55% of accounts posting about the two incidents came from overseas.