Liverpool rioter drops charge of hotel disorder in Rotherham

Prosecutor Neil Coxon said Clayton filmed himself making derogatory comments about police officers outside the hotel in South Yorkshire, but appeared to leave the scene before the situation escalated into major gang violence.

He said the CPS had “reviewed the situation” and decided “not to give any evidence” of Rotherham’s charges of violent disorder and a racially aggravated public order offence.

Dozens of men were sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court following the hotel riot, which saw the building housing more than 200 asylum seekers besieged by people trying to set it on fire.

According to a previous sentence, more than 50 police officers, as well as police horses and dogs, were injured, while asylum seekers and staff trapped in the hotel feared they would be burned alive.

The number of people arrested so far in connection with the riots on Merseyside has reached 136, while 94 people have been charged and 73 people have been sentenced to a total of 156 years and six months in prison.

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