The jailing of a Yorkshire man who published Facebook posts encouraging people to attack a local hotel housing asylum seekers should serve as a warning to others attempting to stir up racist attacks online, prosecutors have said.
Jordan Parlour, 28, admitted urging others to target the building in Leeds, which at the time was housing more than 200 asylum seekers and refugees.
The hotel manager put the building into lockdown on Saturday due to the disorder in the city, and at least one window was broken after stones were thrown over the weekend.
Parlour, of Seacroft, Leeds, was jailed yesterday for 20 months at Leeds Crown Court after calling online for “every man and their dog” to attack the hotel.
