A RIOTER has died in prison while serving a two-year sentence for violent disorder outside a Rotherham hotel. Peter Lynch, 61, died at HMP Moorland, near Doncaster, on Saturday, the MoJ has

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", Sheffield Crown Court heard at his sentencing.

A grandfather who was jailed for taking part in far-right riots that swept the nation this summer has died in prison.

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.

The Holiday Inn Express, which has been home to asylum seekers, was set on fire during the violence of 4 August. The events came in the wake of the fatal stabbings of children in Southport, Merseyside. Social media reports had at the time erroneously suggested a suspect in the case was an asylum seeker.

A grandfather who was jailed after hurling abuse at police officers outside a hotel housing asylum seekrs has died in prison. Peter Lynch was locked behind bars for more than two years after he was caught on camera screaming “scum” and “child killers” at officers alongside a mob that had gathered outside the Holiday Inn.

A rioting grandad who took part in the disgraceful disorder at a Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham has died in prison. Peter Lynch, 61, was jailed for two years and eight months after admitting his part in the disorder at the hotel housing asylum seekers on August 4 this year.

A 61-year-old Wath man who called asylum seekers “child killers” and shouted racist comments at police during the notorious disturbance at Manvers Holiday Inn has reportedly died in Doncaster prison.

A rioter who was jailed for violent disorder and abusing police over the summer has died in prison. Prison sources told The Telegraph that Peter Lynch is believed to have taken his own life on Saturday night at HMP Moorland near Doncaster in south Yorkshire.