Sentencing of Blackpool rioter - jailed for 2 years 6 months

Sentencing of Blackpool rioter – televised court – jailed for 2 years and 6 months

Sentencing of Blackpool rioter

Roger Haywood, 41, of Yew Tree Road, Blackpool jailed for two years and six months.

He received sentence for offences of violent disorder and two counts of assaulting an emergency worker.

The judge handing down the sentence at Preston Crown Court is Judge Robert Altham.

Meanwhile Kieran Usher, 32, from Hendon in Sunderland the first adult in England to be charged with the more serious offence of riot.

At least 365 people charged over the disorder across the UK, with about 90 sentences handed down.

Cameras in crown courts are a relatively new phenomenon in England and Wales.

The change made in July 2022 – with the first broadcast of sentencing remarks for Ben Oliver at the Old Bailey for the manslaughter of his grandfather.

In the first year following the law change, the sentences of 33 offenders across courts were broadcast. This included those of murderers Thomas Cashman, and Wayne Couzens who killed Sarah Everard.