Two men have appeared in court for their roles in recent violent disorder.
Philip Hoban, 48, was convicted at Leeds Magistrates’ Court on Thursday after being charged with causing racially, religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress through words at disorder at Victoria Square in Leeds on 3 August.
Hoban, of Northcote Crescent, Leeds, will be sentenced at the city’s crown court on 15 August.
Meanwhile, Christopher Clayton, 66, also appeared before magistrates charged with two counts of violent disorder in Rotherham and Merseyside.
