Lynch died two months after being jailed following riots outside a hotel housing asylum seekers last summer, where he was at the front of a mob, shouting 'scum' and 'child killers' at police View 5 Images Peter Lynch took his own life in jail (Image: PA)

Race riot granddad Peter Lynch took his own life after being punished for breaking prison rules, an inquest has heard. The father-of-four, 61, was found dead in his cell in HMP Moorland, South Yorks., last year. ‌

He died two months after being jailed following riots outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham last summer, where he was at the front of a mob , shouting “scum” and “child killers” at police amid a wave of disorder following the Southport atrocities . ‌

When Lynch’s inquest was opened last year,

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