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Brick-throwing Sunderland rioter and riot recorder jailed
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Brick-throwing Sunderland rioter and riot recorder jailed

A rioter who threw bricks at police and a man who filmed the disorder and tried to intervene in the arrest of a protester were jailed.

Liam Doeg and Ian Kirtley, both from Sunderland, were involved in a number of incidents after anti-immigration protests turned violent in the city on August 2, Newcastle Crown Court heard.

Doeg, 33, repeatedly attacked police and robbed a vape shop. Kirtley, 36, was part of a group that tried to attack a mosque and encouraged people to attack the officers while filming them on his phone.

Doeg, who admitted rioting and burglary, was jailed for three years and eight months and Kirtley, who pleaded guilty to violent disorder, was jailed for one year and nine months.