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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Croft

Woman who brought 11-year-old to riot at asylum seeker hotel fumes as she is jailed

Aimie Hodgkinson-Hedgecox has been sentenced to more than two years in prison - (Staffordshire Police)

A woman has been jailed after taking a young boy to a summer riot in which a far-right mob attacked a hotel housing asylum seekers.

Aimie Hodgkinson-Hedgecox, 37, pleaded guilty to violent disorder after she was recorded shouting “incendiary and racist” comments at the police officers protecting asylum seekers in Tamworth’s Holiday Inn Express.

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