Thomas Birley added fuel to bin fire and threw objects at police during unrest outside hotel housing asylum seekers

A British court has handed down by far the longest sentence over recent riots, jailing a man for nine years for setting fire to a hotel housing asylum...

A British court has handed down by far the longest sentence over recent riots, jailing a man for nine years for setting fire to a hotel housing asylum...

A man who helped fuel a fire outside a hotel housing more than 200 asylum-seekers was sentenced Friday to nine years in prison, the longest punishment...

Thomas Birley, 27, receives the longest prison sentence passed to date for his role in the disorder.

Thomas Birley, 27, was jailed for nine years at Sheffield Crown Court for his role in much of violence outside the Holiday Inn Express, in Rotherham.

Thomas Birley was seen standing on a burning bin outside a hotel housing asylum seekers.

Judge says that like the other outbreaks of violence in England in early August, the case was 'suffused with racism.'