Ordinary Londoners were left reeling in the wake of the sheer level of violence, which broke out across at least five boroughs, with masked gangs of youths setting fire to buildings, looting shops ...
Prime Minister David Cameron recalls Parliament on Thursday as Government tries to quell uprising 'Unprecedented' 16,000 police on duty in London - compared ... with fire at Croydon furniture ...
Vernel Dolor was jailed for two years for violent disorder in the London riots On the second night of the London riots of August 2011, Vernel Dolor went out on to the streets and threw two bottles ...
Then-Mayor of London Boris Johnson was criticised ... “instead of acting to strengthen the fabric of society’s fire blanket to reduce the risk of riots”, Conservative prime ministers have ...
Ten years on from the riots, they spoke to BBC London about how that night affected them and their families and how they have learned from their experiences. Video journalist: Rob Taylor In 1949 ...
The Metropolitan Police has arrested more than 100 people during London riots as protests continued to rock the country in the wake of the Southport stabbings. Violent outbreaks erupted across the ...
LONDON (RNS) — After six nights of anti-Muslim and anti-migrant rioting, with looting, assaults on police and hotels set on ...
And the following day, it was just utter pandemonium, Brixton burnt, hundreds of cars overturned, the pub set on fire ... Greater London Council in May 1981 – one month after the riots and ...
The review by His Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services , externalwarned ... including the 2011 London riots.
A rioter who helped fuel a fire outside a hotel housing asylum seekers ... It is the joint highest sentence given for the summer's riots, with Thomas Birley, 27, also jailed for nine years in ...
Fire & Rescue Services. In the first review of the police response to the riots, Andy Cooke, His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary, praised officers on the ground for their “immense ...