A father of three who shouted at a police dog and used racist slurs has been jailed for 20 months for violent disorder.
Bradley McCarthy was sentenced on Tuesday after he was caught on video “threatening” left-wing protesters at an anti-immigration rally in Bristol.
Separately, more people were jailed for their role in riots targeting a hotel housing asylum seekers, which was set alight and police hit by bricks and bottles.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) says 494 people have so far been charged about the weeks-long unrest that broke out in England and Northern Ireland after a fatal stabbing attack in Southport in which three young girls died.
McCarthy, 34, had joined an anti-immigration march in Bristol which clashed with counter-protesters and police in Castle Park and on Bristol Bridge on 3 August.
Bristol Crown Court heard he played a “prominent” role in trying to goad police and had “aggressively” shouted at a police dog.
“You did all this in a tinderbox atmosphere where it only takes the actions of one person to spark very serious group violence,” Judge Julian Lambert said.
McCarthy admitted violent disorder at a previous hearing. He has convictions for violence, weapons offenses, and public order.
Others were jailed for their actions during a riot that broke out outside a Rotherham hotel housing asylum seekers on 4 August.
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