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Tyler Kay has been jailed for encouraging people to torch hotels housing asylum seekers.
Daily Mail reports that Mr Key was arraigned for using social media to stoke racial hatred during the far-right violence that erupted in the UK last week.
He encouraged people to torch hotels housing asylum seekers. He was sentenced to over three years in prison on Friday.
Judge Adrienne Lucking of the Northampton Crown Court told Kay that, “You posted as you did because you thought there were no consequences for yourself from stirring up racial hatred in others.
“I am sure that when you intentionally created the posts, you intended that racial hatred would be stirred up by your utterly repulsive, racist and shocking posts that have no place in a civilized society.”
Many hotels housing migrants were targeted after riots started on July 30 due to misinformation online that the teen suspect in a mass stabbing of three girls in northwest England was a Muslim asylum seeker.
Jordan Parlour was sentenced earlier in the day to 20 months in prison for encouraging Facebook followers to attack a hotel in Leeds that housed migrants because he was frustrated with immigration problems in the United Kingdom.
Judge Guy Karl of Leeds Crown Court said, “You went on to say that you did not want your money going to immigrants who ‘rape our kids and get priority,’ you were encouraging others to attack a hotel which you knew was occupied by refugees and asylum seekers.”
