Crown advocate: Inciting riots wrong

Martin McRobb, crown advocate for CPS Merseyside and Cheshire, defends the sentences handed out to young men for inciting riots on Facebook:

"Jordan Blackshaw and Perry Sutcliffe independently and from the safety of their homes may have thought that it would be acceptable to set up a Facebook page to incite others to take part in disorders in Cheshire.

"They were wrong. They both used Facebook to organise and orchestrate serious disorder at a time when such incidents were taking place in other parts of the country."