Taxi-driver jailed for social media posts which encouraged violent disorder A taxi-driver whose posts on social media were a “catalyst” for violent disorder has been jailed for seven and a half years.
Andrew McIntyre, 39, set up a Telegram channel called “Southport Wake Up”, in the immediate aftermath of the knife attack at a children’s dance class in the Merseyside town on July 29 last year, Liverpool Crown Court was told on Monday.
He said: “It is the prosecution case that many of these seats of disorder were not simply spontaneous, or that persons coincidentally simply decided to turn up and take part.
Arthur Gibson, prosecuting, said the case involved a “sinister aspect” of violence which took place in parts of the UK last summer.
“I have no doubt your actions encouraged many people to plan and then to commit offences of both violent disorder and criminal damage.”.
