Episode 2
Mobeen Azhar investigates how online rumours and disinformation combined with extremist agitation led to real-world consequences for the people of Kirkby.
Mobeen Azhar returns to Kirkby to try to connect the dots between a whirlwind of misinformation and growing unrest outside sites housing asylum seekers. He soon finds out that a local man with white supremacist views and connections was campaigning outside the Suites hotel in the run-up to the riot. The question is, how much did this influence what took place days later?
With that man now serving time in prison for stirring up racial hatred, Mobeen’s investigation takes him further afield to a former RAF base called Scampton. Since the night of the riot in Kirkby, the policy of the then Conservative government shifted. They began shutting down asylum seeker hotels in favour of bigger sites like Scampton.
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Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Mobeen Azhar |
Writer | Mobeen Azhar |
Editor | Michael McGill |
Executive Producer | Catey Sexton |
Executive Producer | Jeremy Lee |
Series Producer | Stefan Mattison |
Director | Leo Fawkes |
Production Company | Forest |
Broadcasts
- Tue 24 Sep 2024 21:00
- Wed 25 Sep 2024 02:55
- Wed 25 Sep 2024 23:40Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ One except Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland HD, Wales & Wales HD
- Thu 26 Sep 2024 00:40Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ One Northern Ireland, Wales HD, Wales & Northern Ireland HD only
- Thu 26 Sep 2024 01:50
- Sat 28 Sep 2024 23:55
- Mon 30 Sep 2024 02:55
- Mon 30 Sep 2024 23:30