Southport rioter filmed being hit in groin with brick jailed
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Brian Spencer also admitted racially abusing a fellow hospital patient while being treated for his injuries. A Southport rioter seen in viral footage being hit by bricks in the head and groin while taunting police has been jailed for violent disorder. Following the vigil for three children killed in a stabbing at a Taylor Swift-themed holiday club in July, Brian Spencer was captured CCTV footage acting aggressively and as part of a mob throwing bricks at officers, Merseyside Police said.
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As far right-fuelled anger boiled over into rioting in Southport, which would later spread to towns and cities across the country, the 40-year-old was identified on CCTV repeatedly punching a police vehicle and picking up and throwing wheelie bins at officers.
But in a clip which quickly went viral on social media, Spencer was seen being hit in the head by a projectile while appearing to mock riot police, moments before another missile struck him in the groin, causing him to stagger back into the crowd. While police later took him hospital to receive treatment for the head injury he had sustained, Spencer then went on to racially abuse a fellow patient the following day.
Spencer, of Lytham Road in Southport, was jailed for two years and six months at Liverpool Crown Court on Monday, after pleading guilty to violent disorder during the riots on 30 July. He was also jailed after admitting to racially/religiously aggravated harrassment at Southport Hospital the following day.
