Britain's crackdown over the riots sparked by the killing of three girls in Southport continued today - as thugs including a bingo fan bitten on the backside by a police dog, and a grandfather who was part of a rioting mob were jailed.

Ryan Sheers, who yelled 'I pay your wages' at embattled officers before a police dog nipped him, wept in court as he was jailed for more than two years today.

The 28-year-old and his boyfriend Steven Mailen, 54, had spent the day at the bingo together before walking into the middle of the disorder that rocked Hartlepool on July 31.

Each received sentences of two years and two months in prison by a judge who told them the public were 'rightly outraged by the behaviour seen on the streets of this country.'

Elsewhere, two rioters who were both 'at the forefront' of violent disorder across Britain last week were jailed for a total of more than five years.

Britain's oldest rioter William Nelson Morgan, 69, and gas fitter John O'Malley, 43, were jailed for two years and eight months each in the first televised sentencing of the riots.

Morgan, a semi-retired welder, was armed with a wooden cosh as he took to the streets with a group of about 100 thugs who damaged businesses and buildings and threw missiles at police on County Road, Liverpool, on Saturday night.

He was sentenced alongside O'Malley who rioted outside a mosque in Southport last Tuesday in a crowd of 1,000 people, was told that he was 'at the front of what was essentially a baying mob'.