Boy, 15, first to be charged with riot as more violent disorder suspects locked behind bars

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Elsewhere on Thursday, a man “motivated by racial hatred” who punched and kicked a black man in the face during disorder in Manchester was jailed for three years and two months at the city’s crown court. open image in gallery Joseph Ley was jailed for over three years for insitigating physical violence At the same court, a man who threw bricks at police outside a hotel housing asylum seekers was jailed for two years and 10 months. The longest jail sentence so far is three years and four months, handed to Gareth Metcalfe, 44, of Southport, who pleaded guilty to violent disorder and was sentenced by Liverpool Crown Court. Elsewhere, at Chester Crown Court, a 53-year-old woman who lived a “quiet, sheltered life” was jailed for 15 months after she posted an online message saying: “Blow the mosque up with the adults in it.” Julie Sweeney sent the comment on August 3 to a local community Facebook group from her home in Church Lawton, Cheshire, which was later reported to the police.