Two men have been jailed for their parts in disorder in Southampton following the murder of Henry Nowak during which police were surrounded by a “baying mob throwing projectiles”.
Father-of-two Daniel Frost, 44, from Southampton, was sentenced to two years and four months in prison for violent disorder and possessing an offensive weapon – a dog lead with a metal carabiner which he had fashioned into a “makeshift knuckleduster”.
Reece Robinson, 21, of Havant, was jailed for two years for violent disorder after he threw two stones or small bricks during the protest in the Portswood area on June 2nd.
Judge William Mousley, sitting at Southampton Crown Court, said of the disorder: “This violence was a hate crime borne out of a hatred for police and in some part racist views.”
