In the first case of a person going to jail for posting on social media during the disorder, Jordan Parlour, 28, of Seacroft, Leeds, received a 20-month sentence from the Leeds Crown Court for inciting others to target a Leeds building which housed asylum seekers. Parlour is the first person to be jailed for posts on Facebook during the disorder which has spread across the UK.
He admitted posting on social media between 1 and 5 August urging others to target a building in Leeds housing more than 200 asylum seekers and refugees.
Apart from Parlour, Bradley Makin, 21, of Simonside Road, Springwell, Sunderland, who posted videos of himself “roaring encouragement” at rioters in Sunderland on his Instagram account, has been jailed for two years
Tyler Kay, 26, of Effield Court, Northampton, was jailed for 38 months after stirring up racial hatred by using social media to call for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set alight.
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