Hull Vandal Jailed For Disorder

25 November 2011, 18:33 | Updated: 30 March 2016, 13:50

A graffiti vandal from Hull has been jailed for violent disorder during an anti-cuts protest in London.

Joseph Binney, 22, of The Roundway, Hull, was sentenced to two years in prison at Kingston Crown Court in south west London.

Judge Paul Dodgson said Binney was a member of a "violent mob'' which took part in a series of attacks on property in central London after the TUC protest on March 26.

The attacks led to the damage of police vehicles, two banks and a car showroom.

Binney, who was planning to study graphic design at Leeds Metropolitan University, also received a jail term for criminal damage on eight occasions on the railways between December 2009 and October 2010. He had pleaded guilty to the charges at an earlier hearing.

The prosecution said the majority of graffiti damage was on trains in Yorkshire. British Transport Police put the total cost of the damage at £20,000.

Judge Dodgson handed Binney a three-month prison sentence for the graffiti damage, to be served concurrently with the sentence for violent disorder.

Binney had travelled from Hull to London on a coach to take part in the protest. He was unemployed at the time and not a union member.

Binney insisted he did not take part in the disorder, but a jury convicted him of the offence after a trial at the court last month.

Sentencing him, Judge Dodgson said: "I am quite satisfied that you were bent on violence, certainly against property, and you were part of a violent mob that was causing fear on the streets of London.''