TRIBUTES have been paid to former St Helens Council leader and long-serving councillor Brian Spencer who has died.

Brian Spencer was filmed gyrating his hips and taunting lines of riot police as they were pelted with stones and bricks A man who was hit in the groin with a brick during riots in Southport has ...

Brian Spencer was captured being hit in the groin with a brick in a video that went viral online (Merseyside Police/PA) A man seen in a viral video being hit in the groin with a brick during the ...

Brian Spencer was seen on the video clip gyrating his hips and taunting police lines as they were pelted with stones and bricks. But the 40-year-old is then hit by a wayward missile in the head ...

Brian Spencer, 40, from Southport, had consumed ten pints and a litre of rum before provoking police on St Luke's Road. The violence erupted following the tragic deaths of Alice Da Silva Aguiar, nine, ...

The video of Brian Spencer being hit in the groin by a brick went viral across social media. A man, seen in a viral video being hit in the groin with a brick during the summer’s Southport riots ...

Brian Spencer was sentenced to two years and six months behind bars after pleading guilty to violent disorder at Liverpool Crown Court. The unrest happened on 30 July, the day after a mass ...

On Monday, Brian Spencer, 40, of Lytham Road, in Southport, was sentenced to two years and six months after he pleaded guilty to violent disorder at Liverpool Crown Court. He was also jailed after ...