Hull rioter jailed after his 'utterly disgusting behaviour'

THE COURT HEARD HOW HE JOINED IN SHOCKING SCENES OF TROUBLE

- By MARK NAYLOR

A RIOTER joined in shocking scenes of trouble by helping to pile tyres onto a rapidly-growing fire outside a garage where a terrified family was cowering inside.

Craig Eade was also among the troublemakers who hurled threats at police and he was part of an angry group who surrounded a car containing three men.

Shouts of “Kill them” were heard during the frightening confrontation, Hull Crown Court heard. Eade, 55, formerly of Welwyn Park Avenue, Hull, but recently of Front Street, Middleton-on-the-Wolds, near Driffield, admitted violent disorder and arson on August 3 last year.

Marc Luxford, prosecuting, said that the offences took place on the day of nationwide disorder in the wake of the Southport attack. At 12.50pm, Eade was in King Edward Street, Hull, and he was part of a group that was threatening violence and squaring up to police.

He kicked a police officer's shield. Later that day, Eade was spotted in the Milky Way area and he was involved in piling up of hundreds of tyres which were then set alight.

Two garage workers at locked themselves in the garage with their families and children to escape from the crowd, who shouted: “You b*****d foreigners - come out.” One of the men held the shutter down to keep his family safe.