A rioter jailed for attacking a Rotherham asylum hotel has refused to apologise to the migrants inside in a BBC documentary marking a year on from the civil disorder sparked by the Southport murders.
Ross Hart, 30, attacked a police van and air conditioning units at the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers on August 4 last year because he was so angry about the number of people arriving in the UK illegally in small boats.
'No way am I apologising to immigrants. Not on this planet', he said in a documentary being broadcast tonight. He also refused to condemn the rioters who set fire to the hotel.
The Holiday Inn was home to around 200 asylum seekers and it was smashed up and set alight by a mob chanting 'burn it down'.
Hart was jailed for two years and ten months having pleaded guilty to violent disorder - but has been released early on licence. He has taken part in a BBC Panorama documentary featuring three people imprisoned after riots swept the country last summer.
