UK Government Jails Two Men Over Inciting Racial Hatred, Destructions During Recent Violent Anti-Immigration Riots in Britain

By: Olufemi Orunsola 

The United Kingdom government has jailed two men for a total of five years for their roles in publishing Facebook posts ”intended to stir racial hatred”and also calling for the destruction of a hotel housing 200 asylum seekers in Leeds, during the recent riots in the UK.

One of the the two men, Jordan Parlour, 28, of Brooklands Close, Leeds who appeared before Leeds Crown Court on Friday. He was charged with publishing written material intended to stir racial hatred.

The charge related to posts he put on Facebook in relation to the Britannia Hotel in Seacroft, which houses refugees and asylum seekers.

OPEN TELEVISION NAIJA (OTN) News gathered from reliable UK based media monitored that, Parlour, was handed a 20-month jail term.

The second offender who is identified as a company director,Tyler Kay, on his own part was sentenced for repeating vile anti-immigrant comments posted by the wife of a Tory councillor, earning himself a jail sentence of 38 months at Northampton Crown Court.

The second offender, Tyler Kay was reported to have openly boasted online that he would never be arrested.

The Prosecuting Counsel, Matthew Donkin had noted that staff members at the hotel that was attacked during the riot, revealed that stones had been thrown and windows damaged during the rowdy violent protests that occurred between August 2 and August 3.

Additionally, the Prosecution Counsel observed that Kay also reposted a screenshot of another message inciting action against a named immigration solicitors in Northampton, and other posts attributable to him showed a desire to be involved in organised protests in the town.

”Following the tragic events in Southport, there was then on the 30th July an episode of public disorder in Southport itself, spreading on the 31st July with disorder in Manchester, Hartlepool, Aldershot and London”, Dokin said.

The prosecutor established it that: “Those are the posts including the initial one. From his account as the police had it on his phone, his initial post had received six likes or thumbs up, the second one about refugees being over here received a single thumbs up and another Facebook user replied: ‘Wouldn’t do owt, people doing it the wrong way and its too late now we’re the minority.’”

The court heard that Parlour’s messages were spread widely, which the judge, the Recorder of Leeds Judge Guy Kearl KC, said was ‘plainly your intention.’

Asked online ‘why’ he was encouraging the hotel attack, Parlour wrote ‘Because they’re over here, given a life of riley off the tax us hardworking people earn when it could be put to better use.

Officers arrested Parlour during the early hours. He said he wrote the ‘smashing’ post out of ‘anger and frustration.’

Mr. Donkin further revealed that Parlour believed asylum seekers were taking taxpayers money off working people and ‘raping our kids.’

OTN News observes that the jail sentences handed down to these two men lend practical weight to the promise made by British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer who had, in the wake of the recent protests, threatened that anyone found guilty of participating in or complicity in inciting the rowdy protest "wil face the full force of the law."

OTN News also recalls that the British Prime Minister had pledged that "The police will be making arrests" while "Individuals would be held on remand. Charges will follow and convictions will follow."

"I guarantee you will regret taking part in this disorder whether directly or those wiping up this action online and then running away...." Starmer had pledged.

The recent rowdy violent protests dubbed by Starmer as "organized violent thuggery" has been described as "Britain's worst widespread violent protests in the last 13 years.