A court heard Christopher Beard was at the front of a crowd as violence flared
A dad seen with a 'maniacal grin' at the front of a crowd during disorder in Southport has been jailed. Christopher Beard 'shouted', 'gesticulated' and threw objects towards police officers at the front of a crowd which gathered outside a mosque on July 30.
Sentencing, Recorder of Liverpool Judge Andrew Menary KC said: 'It is no mitigation at all to say you, or some of you, went simply to pay your respects. That lies ill in the mouth of any of you, given your subsequent behaviour. There's footage of you literally building a bonfire in the middle of the road, pulling wheelie bins on top of each other.
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