Lynch was jailed for two years and eight months after body-worn camera footage was shown to the court of him screaming “you are protecting people who are killing our kids and raping them” and “scum” at police with riot shields.

He shouted 'racist and provocative remarks' towards officers and called asylum seekers in the hotel 'child killers'.

A grandfather who had been jailed for his part in a riot against asylum seekers who he had called “child killers” has been found dead in prison.

A man who a court was told had “joined the mob” of rioters who descended on a hotel housing asylum seekers in South Yorkshire has been jailed for his part in the violent disorder.

The 61-year-old pleaded guilty after he was filmed screaming abuse at riot police outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in August, as riots gripped the country after the Southport stabbings. Far-right figures have blamed the police and courts for Lynch’s death, reviving conspiracies that flourished in the wake of the disorder last summer.

Peer Lynch, 61, was jailed in August for his part in the disorder outside the Holiday Inn Express, in Manvers.

Peter Lynch, 61, was serving two years and eight months after he pleaded guilty to being part of the unrest at the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham on 4 August. He shouted "racist and provocative remarks" towards officers and called asylum seekers in the hotel "child killers",

A 61-year-old man who called asylum seekers “child killers” and shouted racist comments at police during a riot at a South Yorkshire hotel has died in a Doncaster prison.