Hugh Devine, a 24-year-old seaman, was today sentenced by a Liverpool court to nine months imprisonment for wounding a policeman ## last summer’s anti-Jewish riots in the port city. This is the heaviest sentence thus far meted out to anybody who participated in the anti-Semitic attacks.
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