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.

A RIOTER who was jailed for two years for shouting abuse at cops outside a hotel housing asylum seekers has died in prison. Peter Lynch, 61, died at HMP Moorland near Doncaster on Saturday, the

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

Peter Lynch was serving a prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to being part of a mob which gathered outside a Holiday Inn Express housing asylum seekers in August.

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.

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

A grandfather jailed for violent disorder and abusing police at an anti-immigration riot this summer has become the first rioter to die in prison. Peter Lynch, 61, described as a conspiracy theorist at his court hearing,

A grandfather convicted of violent disorder after taking part in rioting outside an hotel used to house asylum seekers has died in prison. 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.