A crowd of 250-300 people gathered outside the Suites Hotel where police officers were assaulted and hit with bricks and fireworks
Newly-released drone footage shows the moment masked thugs smash up a police Matrix van before it was torched during a violent protest that saw an officer hospitalised.
The yellow circle marker in the video shows Thomas Mills, 47, who carried a banner which read "let's shout get them out". Mills was caught on the video striking the police carrier with the banner before climbing on top of the vehicle and brandishing the banner to the crowd. Liverpool Crown Court heard he was "encouraging others to behave violently". He was arrested on the night.
Tippler, aged 59 and of St Kevin's Drive in Kirkby, was given two years imprisonment. Forty-four-year-old Shelley, of Delfby Crescent in Kirkby, will be sentenced at a later date after failing to attend court. Mr Walsh said "a majority of the evidence" against those who were put before the courts came from footage obtained by a police drone, body-worn camera footage of the PCs who attended the scene and "evidence gathering officers" who were "tasked with recording events".
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