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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Katie Dickinson

Man who fuelled hotel fire given joint highest riot-related sentence so far

Levi Fishlock during an anti-immigration demonstration outside the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham, South Yorkshire (Danny Lawson/PA) - (PA Wire)

A rioter who helped fuel a fire outside a hotel housing asylum seekers has been jailed for nine years – the joint highest sentence passed down so far for the nationwide disorder over the summer.

Levi Fishlock was a prominent figure in the disorder outside the Holiday Inn Express at Manvers, Rotherham, with a judge saying he “played a part in almost every aspect of the racist mob violence on that terrible day in August”.

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