YouTuber jailed over vile rant outside asylum-seeker hotel

HOMELESS FORMER CHEF STIRRED UP RACIAL HATRED WITH LIVE BROADCAST WITH AUDIENCE OF OVER 30,000

- JOHN SCHEERHOUT

A YOUTUBER has been jailed for stirring up racial hatred after live streaming a vile foul-mouthed rant outside a hotel housing asylum seekers.

Aaron Johnson, 33, a homeless former chef, broadcast himself on an increasingly angry 25-minute tirade from outside the hotel in Stockport to an audience which swelled to more than 30,000 viewers during the widespread disorder which followed the deaths of three children in Southport.

After he had been to the pub and had seen misinformation on Twitter suggesting migrants had been throwing 'sand bricks at passing motorists, Johnson decided to go the hotel and broadcast live from his YouTube channel, The Looking Glass.

Yesterday, Johnson, of Criterion Street in North Reddish, Stockport, appeared at Manchster Minshull Street Crown Court to be sentenced after he admitted a single public order offence, namely that he distributing a recording intending to stir up racial hatred.