Former lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting and six others were on Thursday sentenced to between 25 and 37 months behind bars each, after earlier being found guilty of rioting in Yuen Long in 2019.

The District Court handed down the longest term to Lam.

In handing down the 37-month sentence, judge Stanley Chan said Lam showed no remorse and had played a different role than the other defendants in the riot on July 21, 2019.

The judge said Lam was well-known and his visit to Yuen Long on the day in question had a “different impact” and had worsened confrontations.

Chan rejected the defence's claim that the defendant had intended to resolve conflicts between two rival groups of people, saying he had “fanned the flames” and failed to ask people to stay calm.

Lam will serve three months of his jail term concurrently with the six years and nine months he received earlier for conspiring to commit subversion.