The boss of a haulage company has been jailed for his part in the Rotherham riots.
Ricky Hardman, who runs Hardman Haulage out of Barnsley, was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison after being convicted of violent disorder during the recent rioting outside a hotel housing asylum seekers near Rotherham.
He was arrested after a national newspaper carried a picture of him brandishing a large plank of wood during the disorder in Manvers on Sunday 4 August.
Ricky Hardman told Sheffield Police he had ‘got caught up in the day’ and had ‘probably gone too far’.
Police said he failed to show any remorse for his actions, saying he ‘came worse off than any officer’, after receiving minor injuries from having his hand hit with a baton.
