A man who helped fuel a fire outside a hotel housing more than 200 asylum-seekers has been sentenced to nine years in prison, the longest punishment so far handed to those involved in last month’s wav

A 12-year-old boy has set a new record as the youngest individual to be sentenced in relation to the far-right riots that engulfed England this summer.

The boy pleaded guilty to violent disorder and was sentenced to a 24-month youth rehabilitation order. During the incident on 4 August, the youth was filmed outside the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers,

Liverpool Youth Court heard the youngster threw two stones at police officers, the day after a stabbing attack in the town in which three girls were killed. As well as the referral order, the boy will be subject to a curfew between 21:00 and 07:00 each night for three months.