'It's a genuine tragedy to find you sitting in a criminal court... but you brought it upon yourself'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukAn army veteran who was part of a mob who attacked a lone black man on Piccadilly Gardens when rival protests erupted into violence has been jailed.
A judge said it was a 'genuine tragedy' that father-of-two Colin Brown, from Northern Moor, who has been left with PTSD after being shot during a tour of Afghanistan, had ended up behind bars.
The 37-year-old joined a 'racist' mob which breached police barricades erected in Manchester city centre to keep rival groups apart.
They then were involved in a confrontation with a lone male, who was then attacked by the group during a summer of trouble up and down the country. READ MORE: 'Urgent' investigation update issued following horror double bus crash on edge of Manchester city centre The defendant took part in what was described in court as a 'far right' protest which gathered in Piccadilly Gardens on August 3 but it clashed with a group of pro-Palestine counter demonstrators, Manchester Crown Court heard on Tuesday (November 11).
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