September 7, 2024
9-year jail for torching asylum-seeker hotel in UK anti-Muslim riots
Protesters throw a rubbish bin during an anti-immigration demonstration in Rotherham, Britain, August 4, 2024. — Reuters LONDON: A British man was jailed for nine years on Friday for setting fire to a hotel housing asylum seekers during anti-Muslim riots, by far the longest sentence handed down in recent widespread violence. Thomas Birley, 27, pleaded guilty to arson with intent to endanger life after he set fire to a bin at the entrance to a hotel near Rotherham in northern England on August 4. Prosecutor Alisha Kaye said Birley added wood to an already burning industrial bin, which had been


