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Cameron praises courts for sending a 'tough message' after pair told people to riot on Facebook are jailed for four years
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Yesterday Judge Elgan Edwards made an example of Facebook plotters Sutcliffe and Blackshaw at Chester Crown Court.
The court was told that in separate incidents they set up pages on social networking sites at the height of last week’s violence calling on others to join them in causing trouble in Cheshire.
Unemployed landscape gardener Sutcliffe, who has just one previous conviction, created a Facebook page entitled ‘The Warrington Riots’ and urged 400 friends to join him in creating mayhem.
Petty criminal Blackshaw created an event called ‘Smash Down in Northwich Town’ and invited 147 people to gather at a McDonald’s in the centre of the historic town for a looting spree. Both pages were quickly spotted by the police and taken down before any violence occurred.
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But the sentences – which are tougher than many handed out to muggers, sex attackers and killer drivers – are fresh evidence that judges are determined to reflect public demands for the strictest possible punishments.
Judge Edwards, the Recorder of Chester, branded both Blackshaw and Sutcliffe as ‘evil’.
He sentenced Blackshaw, who admitted a charge of arranging an event capable of encouraging the commission of offences including burglary, criminal damage and riot, to four years in a young offenders institution.
The judge told him: ‘This happened at a time when collective insanity gripped the nation. Your conduct was quite disgraceful. You sought to take advantage of crime elsewhere and transpose it to the peaceful streets of Northwich.’
Sutcliffe admitted a charge of organising an event capable of assisting in the commission of an offence, namely riot.
Judge Edwards told him: ‘You caused a very real panic and you put a very considerable strain on police resources in Warrington.
'You changed your mind and posted a retraction but it does not change the evil of the offences