Smith was tracked down after Greater Manchester Police reviewed CCTV and bodycam footage of the disturbances, in which a group of men attempted to storm the hotel and attack asylum seekers.

Prosecutor Philip Hall said Smith was “smiling and apparently enjoying the event” in the footage.

Ms Potter said he was being jailed for his role in the “ugly events of that evening”, adding that “justice will prevail” for others involved in the riots.

The court also imposed a seven-year criminal prosecution order on Smith.

Meanwhile, at the same court, a 23-year-old man from Bury was sentenced to prison for performing a spinning kick against a shop window.

Oliver Chapman, 23, of Duke Street, Radcliffe, was sentenced to 20 months in prison for violent disorder.

During a police interview, Chapman admitted to kicking a shop front and said: “I gave her a silly spinning kick.”

Judge John Potter told Chapman that he had taken part in an “incident of lawlessness” and had “violently kicked a glass door”.

In the same court, a man who punched and kicked a black man in the face in Piccadilly Gardens “out of racial hatred” was sentenced to three years and two months in prison.

Joseph Ley, 30, of Hardman Street, Stockport, was convicted of violent disorder.

He was also sentenced to two months’ imprisonment, to be served concurrently, for possessing an offensive weapon – an extendable baton – which was found in his home.

Mr Hall said Ley was the first of a group of white men to attack the man.

Court video footage showed Ley, a father of two, saying: “Do you have a problem with us English, brother?”

Judge Potter said Ley was a “violent racist” whose “mindless violence” was inspired by his “fanatical and racist views”.