Thug who faced off with police at protest is jailed for punching and killing a man in a nightclub

A thug who faced off with the police at an anti-immigration demonstration has today been unmasked as a violent yob who killed a man in a nightclub.

Shane Manville attended a protest in Brighton earlier this week, which was apparently targeting the office of solicitors specialising in immigration.

Despite claiming that he ‘ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time’ at the protest, the 48-year-old – who now uses the surname Haworth – became embroiled in a fierce row with police.

Now, it has been revealed that Manville, of Glynde Road, Brighton, was jailed for three years in 2002 for punching and killing a man in a nightclub.

Manville hit father-of-two Anthony Evans, 29, in the face, knocking him to the floor after an altercation at The Escape Club in Brighton.

Shane Manville pictured attending a far right protest attended by a handful of protesters who were outnumbered by anti-racists in Brighton

This week saw thousands of anti-racists demonstrating against far-right protests, as shown here in Walthamstow

Mr Evans, a plasterer, reportedly died from a brain haemorrhage later that night, the Mirror reports. 

Then 26, Manville was jailed after pleading guilty to manslaughter. Over 400 people turned out for Mr Evans’ funeral.

Manville told police he thought Mr Evans was going to attack him with a weapon at the club.

The judge said: ‘In this case there was obviously some measure of provocation by Mr Evans. However, you have a record which indicates you are… all too ready to resort to violence.’

Manville has had several previous convictions for violence, including a three-year setnence in 1996 for a violent assault in a club.

Discussing how he was seen at an anti-immigration protest earlier this week, Manville told the publication: ‘I was in there because I got pushed in there. All I done was went up there and had a look what was going on and I’ve ended up getting pushed into that bit and once I was in there I was stuck in there.’

When asked about his manslaughter case, he went on to say: ‘If you read into what that’s about, it’s a provoked attack… Someone’s trying to do something in a nightclub and it’s just ended up unfortunate like that.

‘Growing up as a young kid, I got involved in scrapes… I’m not racist, right. I haven’t gone up there to cause any… aggro at all. I’ve ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time.’

A man wearing an England flag looks at a huge crowd of anti-racist protesters in Finchley on Wednesday

This week saw thousands of anti-racists demonstrating against far-right protests following the murder of three girls in Southport.

On Wednesday, it was reported how far-right protests fizzled out in the drizzle as tens of thousands of ordinary Brits crowded the streets to silence the rioting thugs.

Around 100 hate-fuelled protests were planned across the country, many of which were planned in now-deleted far-right groups on apps such as Telegram, with police deployed in their biggest mobilisation of resources since the 2011 riots.

But their promises to turn up at immigration centres at 8pm vanished into thin air. The hate mobs were seemingly cowed by a swell of up to 25,000 anti-racist activists who turned out in force in cities across the UK.