Rioter who threw lit arrows at police detained

Drew Jarvis threw objects towards police officers and the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers

A rioter who hurled bricks and lit arrows at police officers during disorder outside a hotel has been detained for three years.

Drew Jarvis, 19, was among the crowd of around 400 people who descended on the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers, which was believed to house around 200 asylum seekers at the time, on 4 August.

Jarvis, who was filmed throwing wooden planks, bricks and lit arrows towards officers and the hotel, had claimed to have attended against his will, but later admitted violent disorder.

At Sheffield Crown Court on Tuesday, he was sentenced to three years in a young offender institution and made subject of a criminal behaviour order for 10 years.

'Shameful and disgraceful'

The court heard the father-of-one had handed himself in at Wombwell Police Station on 9 August.

During his police interview, he identified himself in some of the footage of the riot shown to him and told officers he had attended the location to “sort out” the occupants of the hotel who would be “better off in their own country”.

Jarvis, of no fixed abode, also said he “got in with the wrong crowd” and did not know “why I did it” before claiming he had been too drunk to remember the incident and that he had been there against his will.

Dale Harris, defending, told the court it was “probably stupidity” that possessed his client to get involved in the riot.

The Recorder of Sheffield, Judge Jeremy Richardson KC, told Jarvis: “Your conduct was shameful, it was disgraceful.

"You exhibited a high level of violence in the context of what was going on.

“You are the father of an eight-month-old infant.

"What a dreadful example you are as a father.”

Kaine Hicks said he attended the scene in Rotherham because he was 'nosy'

Also sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court on Tuesday was Kaine Hicks, of Wombwell Road, Barnsley.

Hicks, a self-employed construction worker, was jailed for two years and eight months and handed a criminal behaviour order for 10 years for his participation in the mass disorder.

Footage played in court showed the 22-year-old pushing against police officers’ shields and shouting verbal abuse at them.

Dale Harris, defending, said his client had seen the riot advertised on social media and had gone along because he was "nosy".

Meanwhile, Curtis Coulson, 30 and of Water Slacks Close, Sheffield, was jailed for four months and two weeks for affray.

The offence related to an anti-racism protest outside Sheffield City Hall on 4 August where he waved a stick at a protester in a threatening manner.

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