A 12-year-old boy is believed to be the youngest person to be convicted of a public order-related offence in the entire country.
The young man pleaded guilty to two charges of violent disorder after throwing a projectile at a police van and taking part in two separate incidents of unrest in Manchester at the city’s magistrates’ court on Monday.
The court heard that the youth, whose name cannot be released for legal reasons, was part of a group that gathered outside a Holiday Inn hotel where asylum seekers were staying on July 31.
Prosecutors said the boy was “captured by police kicking the front window of a vape shop” and was also seen kicking a bus as it drove past him.
Another 12-year-old boy is due to appear in Liverpool Youth Court on charges of violent disorder.
Elsewhere, the wife of a Conservative councillor is also due to appear in court, accused of using social media to incite people to attack hotels housing asylum seekers.
Lucy Connolly, the wife of West Northamptonshire councillor Raymond Connolly, is said to have posted a message on X on the day three girls were stabbed to death in Southport saying: “Mass deportation now, burn down all the f****** hotels full of these bastards for all I care… If that makes me racist then so be it.”
The 41-year-old, of Parkfield Avenue, Northampton, has not yet pleaded guilty and will appear at the city’s Crown Court.
A 41-year-old man has been sentenced to two years and eight months in prison at Sheffield Crown Court for his part in rioting outside an asylum seekers’ hotel in Rotherham.
Ricky Hardman, who runs a haulage company, was arrested after a photo of him brandishing a piece of wood during the disturbances on Sunday, August 4, was published in a national newspaper, a judge was told.
In Manchester, a man has admitted throwing a projectile at police during a “disgraceful disorder” in Bolton town centre on August 4.
Niall Charnock, 31, was filmed on social media breaking through a police barricade and throwing something at officers.
A teenager who “partied” after throwing a brick that hit a police officer during riots in Darlington was jailed for 18 months at Teesside Crown Court.
Cole Stewart, 18, was one of about 30 people who gathered outside a mosque in the city on Aug. 5.
Stewart was seen breaking a large boulder into smaller rocks and throwing them at police. He was later spotted “celebrating with his arms in the air” when one of the rocks hit an officer in the arm.
Also in the northeastern US, a 34-year-old man has admitted sharing a video on TikTok in an attempt to stir up racial hatred.
James Aspin, from Blyth, Northumberland, pleaded guilty to distributing a recording with intent to stir up racial hatred at a hearing at Bedlington Crown Court.
So far, 927 people have been arrested and 466 charged in connection with the recent unrest, a spokesman for the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) said on Monday.
According to the Public Prosecution Service, 273 people were charged on Monday in connection with the riots.
The figure released by the NPCC is higher because it relates to allegations made solely by the police and does not involve the CPS.
