A man has been jailed for 39 months for sending messages from his BlackBerry telling people to join in last August's riots in Nottingham.

Sam Lowe, 21, from Nottingham, had admitted a charge of encouraging violent disorder after he sent a BlackBerry Messenger instant message, or BBM, telling his 160 contacts to "kick off" during disorder in the city in 2011.

Nottinghamshire police said the m…