There Isn't a Riot Going On
A British court has sentenced Jordan Blackshaw and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan to four years in prison for organizing riots that never happened. The two set up a Facebook page for "Warrington Riots" and also posted "massive Norwich looting'" as a Facebook event. Both events listed a time and date. But no looting or rioting occurred, and a lawyer for one of the men describes the pages as a joke.
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