Overview
- Luke Yarwood, 36, pleaded guilty at Bournemouth Crown Court to two counts of publishing material intended to stir up racial hatred.
- Prosecutors said his X posts urged people to burn migrant hotels and to begin “slaughter in the streets,” with one reply directed at a GB News post.
- The tweets were reported to Dorset Police by Yarwood’s brother-in-law, and he later accepted authorship after initially claiming his phone was hacked.
- Prosecutor Siobhan Linsley argued the messages came during heightened tensions around asylum accommodation and cited the Lucy Connolly case as a relevant precedent.
- Although the two criminal posts drew only 33 views, the court heard other posts in the same period reached more than 800 users, and the judge said immediate custody was warranted.