Jailed: Philip Burgess, 22, from Salford, was sentenced to three years for inciting violence during the Manchester riots A Facebook user who posted on the social networking site that rioters should 'put Manchester on the map' has been jailed for three years. Philip Burgess, from Salford, wrote the message when the August riots were at their most fervent, and urged his friends to wreak havoc in the city centre. The 22-year-old, who admitted encouraging the commission of offences of riot and inciting racial hatred, sobbed as the sentence was handed down at Manchester Crown Court. Unemployed Burgess logged on to Facebook on August 9 under his profile name 'Philip Rio Burgess', at 11.44am posted: 'Message to all - we need to start riot 'n we need to put Manchester on the map, first lets riot king street Manchester, haha.'
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Jobless 22-year-old from Salford sobbed as he was sentenced
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In addition, found guilty of inciting racial hatred
At that point @placeholder had not yet been targeted by rioters, but shortly afterwards trouble flared up in the city.