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Arsonist who targeted asylum hotel given longest sentence

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Arsonist who targeted asylum hotel given longest sentence

Arsonist who targeted asylum hotel given longest sentence

27-year-old Thomas Birley was jailed for nine years for taking part in a riot in Rotherham.

Judge Jeremy Richardson KC said, “It was a desire to perpetrate mob rule and commit very serious criminal offences in the process”.

Report by Ajagbef.

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