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UK riots: Father-of-three given thre years for police van attack

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Luke Moran , 38 , was one of five people sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court for violent disorder in Southport .

The father-of-three attacked a police van with a lump of concrete, described as "as bad a case as I have seen so far" The latest group of defendants to appear in court on Wednesday included men accused or convicted of unrest outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham .

Police told the BBC that Farhan Asif was linked to a website which gave a false name for the suspected Southport attacker and suggested he was an asylum seeker who arrived in the UK on a small boat. The article, published on the website Channel3Now in the hours after the attack, was widely quoted in viral posts on social media..

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58

Informative language

48

Neutral language

67

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

43

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possibly offensive

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not hateful

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short-lived

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