Lynch was jailed for two years and eight months after body-worn camera footage was shown to the court of him screaming “you are protecting people who are killing our kids and raping them” and “scum” at police with riot shields.

A RIOTER who was jailed for two years for shouting abuse at cops outside a hotel housing asylum seekers has died in prison. Peter Lynch, 61, died at HMP Moorland near Doncaster on Saturday, the

He shouted 'racist and provocative remarks' towards officers and called asylum seekers in the hotel 'child killers'.

Peter Lynch was serving a prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to being part of a mob which gathered outside a Holiday Inn Express housing asylum seekers in August.

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

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",

A 61-year-old man who called asylum seekers “child killers” and shouted racist comments at police during a riot at a South Yorkshire hotel has died in a Doncaster prison.

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 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.