London: A jobless British teenager who used Facebook to incite his 2,000 friends to 'kill of a million police officers' during the recent English riots has been jailed for 33 months.
Amed Pelle, 18, posted three messages on his Facebook 'wall' on August 9, hours before serious disorder broke out in Nottingham, his home city.
He also asked if any of them 'wanted anything' from a fashion store that was later looted, the court was told yesterday.
The first two postings read 'Nottz Riot whose onit?' and 'Kill one black youth, we kill a million Fedz (police), riot til we own cities'. It is believed the second message was a reference to Mark Duggan, whose death in Tottenham sparked the riots, the worst England has seen in nearly three decades.
In his third message, Pelle wrote: 'Rioting 2nyt anyone want anything from (fashion chain) Flannels?' The store, in Nottingham city centre, had its windows smashed hours later.
Pelle had pleaded guilty to doing an act which was capable of encouraging or assisting the commission of an offence, namely violent disorder, the Daily Mail reported.
Judge John Milmo told Pelle that his comments 'encouraged attacks on the people of Nottingham as a whole, and the people of other cities.'
Sentencing the teenager to two years and nine months in a young offenders' institution, he added: 'Your offence was designed to, and could well have led to, increased numbers on the street intent on violence to persons and property.
Figures last week showed that rioters were getting sentences which were '40 per cent longer' than people found guilty of equivalent offences.
In the wake of riots, British Prime Minister David Cameron suggested cutting off social networking services used by people causing trouble in the streets.
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