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Two jailed for violent disorder at asylum hotel
Jonathan Glover, pictured at a previous court appearance, lost two teeth during the disorder
Two men have been jailed for more than two years after taking part in protests outside an asylum hotel in Essex last summer.
An "aggressive mob" of hundreds of people gathered outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, in July 2025, after one of the migrants living there was charged with sexual assault, Chelmsford Crown Court heard.
Jonathan Glover, 47, from Springfields, Waltham Abbey, was sentenced to two years and six months in prison for violent disorder.
Charlie Land, 24, from Warren Close in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, sobbed as he received a two year and eight month sentence for violent disorder and criminal damage.
The pair were found guilty at Chelmsford Crown Court following a trial in June.
The court heard Glover had "reluctantly" attended the protest outside the Bell Hotel on 17 July 2025 with his partner, but in sentencing, Judge Mills said "far from an unwilling participant, you [Glover] were wholeheartedly engaged in what was going on".
Footage played during the trial showed Glover confronting officers, filming them on his phone.
Officers were seen trying to remove Glover from the path of their vehicles. In one altercation, Glover is pushed back by an officer with their riot shield, an incident that resulted in Glover losing two teeth.
Mills said Glover had repeatedly said he was there "to film, to document, to report" saying he was a journalist, but "you were nothing of the sort".