Manchester Judge Sends 12-YO Boy to Prison for Involvement in UK Riots
Far-right, racist riots in the United Kingdom, Aug. 2024. Photo: X/ @MarioNawfal
August 12, 2024 Hour: 11:51 am
On July 31, he was causing violent disturbances outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in the Newton Heath district.
On Monday, Joanne Hirst, the district judge of Manchester, ordered the pretrial detention of a 12-year-old boy for his “very serious” involvement in the violent riots that occurred in the United Kingdom.
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Previously, the boy had pleaded guilty to two counts of “violent disorder” before the Manchester Magistrates’ Court after throwing an object at a police van and participating in two different violent incidents in the northwestern English city.
Prosecutor Tess Kenyon told the court that the boy attended a gathering on July 31 in front of a hotel housing asylum seekers in the Newton Heath neighborhood of Manchester, where he handed a stone to another youth and participated in an attack on a bus. The boy was filmed by police kicking the front window of a vape shop and throwing an object at a police van in the same city on August 3.
“He is more involved in the violence and disorder than any other defendant I’ve seen come through these courts, adult or child,” stated Judge Hirst, who described the case as “very serious” and ordered the boy to be held in pretrial detention before sentencing.
On Monday, another 12-year-old boy appeared before the Liverpool Youth Court and only spoke to confirm his name and plead guilty to the charge of “violent disorder.”
The minor was caught on security cameras throwing an object at the police on July 30 in Southport before riding away on a bicycle. The boy was released on bail on the condition that he does not enter the Southport road where the riots took place and will have to appear in court again on September 17.
The disorder erupted in towns and cities across the United Kingdom following the multiple stabbings that occurred on July 29 in Southport, which resulted in the deaths of three girls and ten others injured at the hands of Axel Rusakubana, a 17-year-old Welsh youth of Rwandan parents.
This incident sparked a wave of violence instigated by far-right and anti-immigration groups, leading to more than 700 arrests.
teleSUR/ JF Source: EFE
