Michael Cahill, mitigating, said that Shirbon had spent the earlier part of the evening at the bingo.
He said: “He is a very young man, a care leaver, who has been able to get this far in life without troubling the court system.
“He had been to the bingo with his family earlier and saw on social media there was a disturbance in town and very foolishly he went to see what was going on.”
The court heard the violence involved up to 300 people whipped up by social media posts giving the addresses of asylum seekers living in the centre of the town.
Rachel Master, prosecuting, said: “It was observed that Shirbon was present at the scene with another man.
“He was part of a group throwing bottles, wooden planks, plastic bottles and housebricks and the defendant was seen to smash windows and cause damage.”
Shirbon dressed in balaclava
Shirbon, who admitted two counts of violent disorder, evaded arrest on July 31 and was out again the next night, hurling beer bottles at a police van while dressed in a balaclava.
Ms Masters said: “He was arrested and found to be in possession of a balaclava and told he was being arrested because witnesses had seen him throw a beer bottle at the police van.”
It comes after a couple who had also been at bingo and then became involved in riots in Hartlepool were each jailed for two years and two months on Thursday.
Steven Mailen, 54, of Arch Court, Hartlepool, former postmaster and school governor, was described as “one of the main instigators” of a large-scale disturbance on Murray Street.
His partner Ryan Sheers, 29, of Powlett Road, Hartlepool, was bitten on the hip by a police dog during the incident.
They join the growing number of people who have been convicted after rioting broke out across Britain in the wake of the Southport stabbings.