A couple who joined in riots in Hartlepool after an afternoon bingo session have been jailed. Steven Mailen, 54, and his partner Ryan Sheers, 29, both pleaded guilty to violent disorder after 200 people gathered in the city on 31 July. Jailing them for two years and two months each at Teesside Crown Court, the judge said the pair were "at the very forefront of the mob" and tried to push through a police cordon.

Mailen, a former postmaster and school governor, was described as "one of the main instigators" of the large-scale disturbance. Sheers, formerly a McDonald's worker, was bitten on the hip by a police dog during the incident.





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