Police building set on fire and officers in hospital as far-right riot in Sunderland

A police building went up in flames last night as riots spread to Sunderland, with three officers taken to hospital.

Cars were set alight as officers were pelted with horse poo and beer cans in far-right disorder, with action threatened in more cities still today.

Lawyers have been put on standby and jail cells cleared in readiness for a weekend of rioting.

It follows the killing of three girls in town at a Taylor Swift dance class on Monday, with disruption in Southport, Hartlepool and London earlier this week.

Violent protests which emerged in the aftermath of the Southport stabbings have seen people hurling bricks at officers and shouts of racial slurs.

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Footage of the rioting shared on YouTube showed a man with a swastika tattooed on his back marching through Sunderland last night.

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer said ‘action will be taken’ towards those found to be involved in violent protest.

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Chief Superintendent Helena Barron from Northumbria Police confirmed three police officers were taken to hospital this evening, and while one has been discharged, two are still receiving treatment.

Eight people have been arrested for a range of offences, including violent disorder and burglary, and the force has launched a full investigation to identify others responsible.

Chief Supt Barron added: ‘The shocking scenes we have witnessed in Sunderland this evening are completely unacceptable.

‘I want to make it absolutely clear that the disorder, violence and damage which has occurred will not be tolerated.

‘The safety of the public is our utmost priority and when we became aware that a protest had been planned, we ensured there was an increased policing presence in the city.

‘During the course of the evening those officers were met with serious and sustained levels of violence, which is utterly deplorable.

‘In the face of these attacks, they showed unwavering commitment for which I wholeheartedly thank them, as I am certain the overwhelming majority of people in Sunderland will also.

Anyone involved in the disorder we have seen can expect to be dealt with robustly – and that action has already begun.

‘The right to lawful protest is a key part of any democracy, which the police uphold. However, we will not accept people using them as a means to commit crime.

‘We want to be clear anyone planning to involve themselves in disorder in the future should stay at home.

‘We also know the behaviour displayed is in no way representative of our friendly and welcoming region.

‘We therefore want to deliver a further message direct to our communities – we are aware that the actions we have seen this evening can be an attempt to drive division amongst us all and we are committed to making sure that does not happen.

‘We have incredibly cohesive communities here which we are proud to be a part of and to serve.

‘This is just one of the reasons which makes our region such a special place to live, work and visit. We are stronger together.’

August 2, 2024 11:28 pmMan stabbed in Southport attack opens up about racing to rescue young girls Katie Boyden Man stabbed in Southport attack opens up about racing to rescue young girls August 2, 2024 11:04 pmPICTURES: Looting and fires in Sunderland Katie Boyden August 2, 2024 10:41 pmFundraisers for Southport victims and their families have raised more than £300,000 Katie Boyden

A heartwarming update from GoFundMe, who have confirmed this evening that donations through their platform have topped £300,000 since the horrific stabbings on Monday.

Thousands of people have donated to the families of Alice Aguiar, Elsie Dot Stancombe, and Bebe King, as well as for Leanne Lucas and Heidi Barlow.

Steven Gerrard and Anthony Gordon both donated huge sums to a community-led fundraiser which has topped £100,000 alone, and there are also further fundraisers to help rebuild both Southport Mosque and the Windsor Mini Mart.

You can visit GoFundMe’s centralised hub here, which links to all of the verified fundraising pages.

August 2, 2024 10:28 pmNew video emerges of Southport stabbings suspect in BBC Children in Need video Katie Boyden New video emerges of Southport stabbings suspect in BBC Children in Need video August 2, 2024 10:27 pmLiverpool mosque handing out food and drink Katie Boyden

The Abdullah Quilliam Mosque has been handing out food and drink in Liverpool this evening.

Yesterday they promised to provide free refreshments for both protesters and counter-protesters, and even invited those with concerns into the mosque to have a conversation.

Adam Kelwick said: ‘Bring your concerns in, let’s have a discussion about issues which are affecting our communities and how we can work together to solve them.

‘The things which affect our society also affect us as a Muslim community.’

Tom Sanders, our reporter at the mosque, says none of the ‘Enough is Enough’ demonstration members took Adam up on his offer.

Describing the atmosphere as he left Liverpool at around 9.30pm, he said: ‘Honestly quite a victorious atmosphere. They’d beaten back the far-right comprehensively, who never stood a chance at getting anywhere near the mosque.

‘By the time I left at around half nine there was a drum circle and singing, and the far-right’s numbers had dwindled to next to nothing.

‘It was a definitive victory and those in attendance knew it.’

August 2, 2024 10:20 pmLiverpool counter-protester: ‘We are the majority’ Tom Sanders

Samira travelled up from London to take part in the Liverpool counter-protest this evening.

Explaining why she came, she said: ‘The people here today are probably thinking the same as me, they’re shocked and appalled at the far-right riots in Southport, and the fact that racists feel emboldened to come out openly on our streets and attempt to attack mosques.

‘We’re here to defend the mosque, and to defend multicultural Britain as a whole.

‘The recent rhetoric is all about how it’s failing and we need to remove Islam from our country – essentially hysteria that’s based on a lie around the identity of the attacker in Southport.

‘The members of the far right are exploiting such a horrible situation which should be bringing the community together and all they want to do is further divide people.

‘It’s shameful, and it’s our responsibility to come out and say we’re part of something bigger than them.

‘I think it’s good that so many people have come out because at the moment it can feel a bit like it’s a moment of despair, that maybe the far right is winning, but I think we’re the majority.’

August 2, 2024 10:06 pmLiverpool counter-protester: ‘politicians don’t seem to recognise how bad things are getting’ Tom Sanders

Lila Tamea took part in the counter-protest in Liverpool this evening.

She told Metro: ‘The past couple of nights, it’s been difficult not knowing what to expect. Obviously I’m a visible hijabi Muslim woman in Liverpool, I commute, I get the train.

‘I know Scousers, and I know Liverpool is quite an anti-racist city, it’s quite a leftist city as well, so I think the scenes tonight are to be expected.

‘It’s been nice to see, and I did expect quite a good turn-out, but I did expect a lot more of the far-right to come, so I do think the counter-demo really did its job in deterring them.

‘I definitely think the far-right would have been more emboldened [if there was no counter-demo]. They were still shouting despite the numbers we’ve seen here today, we’ve got 200 and there were about 50 far-right.

‘Even then, they were quite emboldened to shout despite the police and the amount of counter-protesters, but they just look very silly.’

Discussing the future of anti-fascist counter-protesting in Liverpool, she added: ‘This is obviously a good show of force in terms of numbers, but there aren’t many Muslims in Liverpool, so it is still quite worrying.

‘It’s been worrisome seeing the lack of reaction and lack of acknowledgement for the Muslim community from politicians – they don’t seem to recognise how bad things are getting and this just shows you the direction we’re going in if they don’t come and stop it quicker.’

August 2, 2024 9:58 pmSunderland ‘will come together’ as MP condemns violence Danny Rigg

Riots in Sunderland have seen at least one vehicle and building set on fire, along with an attempted attack on a mosque.

But this ‘tiny minority causing trouble’ doesn’t represent the city, according to Lewis Atkinson, Labour MP for Sunderland Central.

He said: ‘Tomorrow the people of Sunderland will come together and continue to build the bright future that we have – a future where every community of our city feels safe and prospers.’

August 2, 2024 9:53 pmSwastika spotted on Sunderland protester’s tattooed back Danny Rigg

Protesters and their sympathisers have repeatedly insisted they are not far-right as riots spread across the country this week.

This is despite men in balaclavas, often wrapped in England flags, attacked mosques, refugees and police while chanting anti-immigrant slogans.

Now footage has emerged of a bare-chest men with a swastika tattoo on his back in Sunderland.

The black symbol in a white circle in the centre of red rectangle is in the same style as flags of Nazi Germany, which killed millions of Jewish people and other victims during the Holocaust, mostly in gas chambers.

A gas mask is visible on the other side of the man’s back.

August 2, 2024 9:42 pmPolice station up in flames as Sunderland riot spirals into chaos Danny Rigg

An overturned car has been set alight, supermarket shoppers have been trapped in Aldi, and both bricks and beer barrels have been lobbed at police as protesters tried to attack a mosque.

Now a Sunderland police station is on fire, with flames roaring out the front.

The chop of a helicopter can be heard overhead in a video shared of the fire at Sunderland Central Police Station on Waterloo Place.

Protesters have been chanting slogans supporting EDL founder Tommy Robinson and opposing Islam as they gathered a few streets away in Keel Square tonight.

Some have sprayed police with fire extinguishers along the adjacent High West Street.

August 2, 2024 9:10 pmNo weekend off for prosecutors as they’re drafted in to prosecute rioters Danny Rigg

With riots spreading across the country, and police forces grappling to contain the violence, the prosecution service is working overtime.

Extra prosecutors have been called in to work over the weekend, according to the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Stephen Parkinson said: ‘We take the recent incidents of violent disorder extremely seriously and we are ready to respond rapidly if there is a fresh outbreak.

‘We have deployed dozens of extra prosecutors who are working round the clock this weekend, supporting the police, and ready to make immediate charging decisions so that justice is swiftly delivered.’

August 2, 2024 9:03 pmPICTURES: Car toppled and set alight in Sunderland Katie Boyden August 2, 2024 8:49 pmFar-right drowned out by hundreds of counter-protesters in Liverpool Danny Rigg {"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Metro.co.uk","duration":"T49S","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/08\/02\/20\/88097977-0-image-a-34_1722627278359.jpg","uploadDate":"2024-08-02T20:32:06+0100","description":"Things are relatively quieter in Liverpool where the up to 300 anti-fascist counterdemonstrators vastly outnumber the far-right.","contentUrl":"https:\/\/videos.metro.co.uk\/video\/met\/2024\/08\/02\/7090924542521526997\/480x270_MP4_7090924542521526997.mp4","height":480,"width":270}

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Tensions have started to rise in Liverpool after a far-right demonstrator crossed the road towards Abdullah Quilliam Mosque.

A man filming with his phone as he drove past in a car has also riled up the crowd of counter-demonstrators.

Riot police swept in to keep apart the two groups, who have otherwise largely remained perched on their respective sides of the road.

Anti-fascist counter-demonstrators have been drowning out the far-right with chants of ‘Nazi scum off our streets’, ‘There are many many more of us than you’, and ‘Refugees are welcome here’.

August 2, 2024 8:39 pmAldi customers trapped inside as protesters pelt police with horse poo Danny Rigg

Protesters in Sunderland appear to have turned the police’s horses against them by scooping up the dung and throwing it at officers.

Meanwhile, customers are cowering inside the Aldi opposite Millfield Mosque where this is all taking place.

Riot police have formed a human barrier around the religious and community building.

But they’ve become the targets of bricks, poppers and plant pots thrown by protesters.

North East Mayor Kim McGuinness said: ‘I’m appalled by scenes from Sunderland. Make no mistake, if your response to tragedy is to use it to commit violence, to abuse others, attack the police and damage property you stand for nothing except thuggery. It’s not protest.

‘It’s crime and disorder. You don’t speak for Sunderland. You don’t speak for this region.

‘Those grieving in Southport will take no comfort from this.’

August 2, 2024 8:30 pm‘Nans against Nazis’ join counter-protest outside Liverpool mosque. Danny Rigg

Things are relatively quieter in Liverpool where the up to 300 anti-fascist counter-demonstrators vastly outnumber the far-right.

Organisers of the protest targeting the Abdullah Quilliam Mosque, the UK’s first when it opened in 1889, had sold it as a ‘major clash’.

But just 70 have responded to the call to arms, leaving them standing somewhat sheepishly across the road.

Holding a placard saying ‘Nans against Nazis’, 70-year-old Pat said: ‘We’re telling them wherever they go, we’ll be there. We’ve never allowed them in the city of Liverpool.’

She first protested 50 years ago against the National Front, and this fixture of Liverpool’s anti-fascist movement has no intention of stopping.

Pat said: ‘Someone said to me “you’re too old, don’t be doing this”, but as long as they’re here someone’s got to do it.’

Liverpool has a reputation for chasing out the far-right time after time, trapping them in a train station’s lost luggage, or pelting them with bananas, to the Benny Hill theme tune.

But local anti-fascists have been worried since a riot outside the Suites Hotel, housing asylum seekers, in nearby Kirkby caught them off guard last year.

Then, they found themselves unexpectedly outnumbered by the rioters who set fires, threw projectiles and shouted abuse, leaving counterdemonstrators feeling scared as they were trapped between fences and police.

August 2, 2024 8:17 pmChaos as protesters climb police vans and hurl bricks Danny Rigg

Bricks lie at the feet of horses mounted by police officers, who’ve come under attack during the protests in Sunderland.

While some protesters stand on the pavement waving handheld Union Jacks as they watch on, others have taken a more violent route.

Pictures show beer splattering the window of a police car as a can is thrown at it.

But that’s perhaps a softer projectile than the stones and bricks flying through the air.

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A black car, which appears to be a taxi, was surrounded by men wearing balaclavas outside the Holiday Inn near Sunderland City Hall.

They kicked its headlights and pelted it with stones as the air was filled with smoke.

One witness can be heard saying, ‘There’s no need for this at all’, as a car horn honks in the background.

August 2, 2024 7:54 pmStones and beer cans fly through air outside Sunderland mosque Danny Rigg

Roughly a mile away from the protest outside Sunderland City Hall, a smaller crowd has gathered outside Masjid e Anwaar e Madinah, otherwise known as Millfield Mosque, on St Mark’s Road.

Some individuals wearing balaclavas or draped in flags have charged at riot police shouting ‘this is our land’ and calling police traitors.

Others have hurled stones and beer cans in their direction.

Mounted police have attempted to push them back.

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However, we will not accept people using them as a means to commit crime.\n \n'We want to be clear anyone planning to involve themselves in disorder in the future should stay at home.\n \n'We also know the behaviour displayed is in no way representative of our friendly and welcoming region.\n \n'We therefore want to deliver a further message direct to our communities \u2013 we are aware that the actions we have seen this evening can be an attempt to drive division amongst us all and we are committed to making sure that does not happen.\n \n'We have incredibly cohesive communities here which we are proud to be a part of and to serve.\n \n'This is just one of the reasons which makes our region such a special place to live, work and visit. We are stronger together.'","headline":"Three police officers injured and eight arrests in Sunderland so far","author":{"name":"katie-boyden"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21352933","datePublished":"2024-08-02T23:28:46+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T23:28:46+01:00","articleBody":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/08\/02\/man-stabbed-southport-attack-opens-racing-rescue-young-girls-21352804","headline":"Man stabbed in Southport attack opens up about racing to rescue young girls","author":{"name":"katie-boyden"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21352883","datePublished":"2024-08-02T23:04:50+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T23:04:50+01:00","articleBody":"\n \n\n \n","headline":"PICTURES: Looting and fires in Sunderland","author":{"name":"katie-boyden"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21352832","datePublished":"2024-08-02T22:41:31+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T22:41:31+01:00","articleBody":"A heartwarming update from GoFundMe, who have confirmed this evening that donations through their platform have topped \u00a3300,000 since the horrific stabbings on Monday. \n \nThousands of people have donated to the families of Alice Aguiar, Elsie Dot Stancombe, and Bebe King, as well as for Leanne Lucas and Heidi Barlow.\n \nSteven Gerrard and Anthony Gordon both donated huge sums to a community-led fundraiser which has topped \u00a3100,000 alone, and there are also further fundraisers to help rebuild both Southport Mosque and the Windsor Mini Mart.\n \nYou can visit GoFundMe's centralised hub here, which links to all of the verified fundraising pages.","headline":"Fundraisers for Southport victims and their families have raised more than \u00a3300,000","author":{"name":"katie-boyden"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21352809","datePublished":"2024-08-02T22:28:22+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T22:28:22+01:00","articleBody":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/08\/02\/new-video-southport-stabbings-suspect-bbc-children-need-video-21352539","headline":"New video emerges of Southport stabbings suspect in BBC Children in Need video","author":{"name":"katie-boyden"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21352807","datePublished":"2024-08-02T22:27:32+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T22:43:53+01:00","articleBody":"\n \nThe Abdullah Quilliam Mosque has been handing out food and drink in Liverpool this evening.\n \nYesterday they promised to provide free refreshments for both protesters and counter-protesters, and even invited those with concerns into the mosque to have a conversation. \n \nAdam Kelwick said: 'Bring your concerns in, let's have a discussion about issues which are affecting our communities and how we can work together to solve them.\n \n'The things which affect our society also affect us as a Muslim community.'\n \nTom Sanders, our reporter at the mosque, says none of the 'Enough is Enough' demonstration members took Adam up on his offer.\n \nDescribing the atmosphere as he left Liverpool at around 9.30pm, he said: 'Honestly quite a victorious atmosphere. They'd beaten back the far-right comprehensively, who never stood a chance at getting anywhere near the mosque.\n \n'By the time I left at around half nine there was a drum circle and singing, and the far-right's numbers had dwindled to next to nothing.\n \n'It was a definitive victory and those in attendance knew it.'","headline":"Liverpool mosque handing out food and drink","author":{"name":"katie-boyden"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21352787","datePublished":"2024-08-02T22:20:31+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T22:20:32+01:00","articleBody":"Samira travelled up from London to take part in the Liverpool counter-protest this evening.\n \nExplaining why she came, she said: \u2018The people here today are probably thinking the same as me, they\u2019re shocked and appalled at the far-right riots in Southport, and the fact that racists feel emboldened to come out openly on our streets and attempt to attack mosques.\n \n\u2018We\u2019re here to defend the mosque, and to defend multicultural Britain as a whole.\n \n\u2018The recent rhetoric is all about how it\u2019s failing and we need to remove Islam from our country - essentially hysteria that\u2019s based on a lie around the identity of the attacker in Southport.\n \n\u2018The members of the far right are exploiting such a horrible situation which should be bringing the community together and all they want to do is further divide people.\n \n\u2018It\u2019s shameful, and it\u2019s our responsibility to come out and say we\u2019re part of something bigger than them.\n \n\u2018I think it\u2019s good that so many people have come out because at the moment it can feel a bit like it\u2019s a moment of despair, that maybe the far right is winning, but I think we\u2019re the majority.\u2019","headline":"Liverpool counter-protester: 'We are the majority'","author":{"name":"katie-boyden"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21352752","datePublished":"2024-08-02T22:06:24+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T22:06:24+01:00","articleBody":"\n \nLila Tamea took part in the counter-protest in Liverpool this evening.\n \nShe told Metro: \u2018The past couple of nights, it\u2019s been difficult not knowing what to expect. Obviously I\u2019m a visible hijabi Muslim woman in Liverpool, I commute, I get the train.\n \n\u2018I know Scousers, and I know Liverpool is quite an anti-racist city, it\u2019s quite a leftist city as well, so I think the scenes tonight are to be expected.\n \n\u2018It\u2019s been nice to see, and I did expect quite a good turn-out, but I did expect a lot more of the far-right to come, so I do think the counter-demo really did its job in deterring them.\n \n\u2018I definitely think the far-right would have been more emboldened [if there was no counter-demo]. They were still shouting despite the numbers we\u2019ve seen here today, we\u2019ve got 200 and there were about 50 far-right.\n \n\u2018Even then, they were quite emboldened to shout despite the police and the amount of counter-protesters, but they just look very silly.'\n \nDiscussing the future of anti-fascist counter-protesting in Liverpool, she added: \u2018This is obviously a good show of force in terms of numbers, but there aren\u2019t many Muslims in Liverpool, so it is still quite worrying.\n \n\u2018It\u2019s been worrisome seeing the lack of reaction and lack of acknowledgement for the Muslim community from politicians - they don\u2019t seem to recognise how bad things are getting and this just shows you the direction we\u2019re going in if they don\u2019t come and stop it quicker.\u2019","headline":"Liverpool counter-protester: 'politicians don't seem to recognise how bad things are getting'","author":{"name":"katie-boyden"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21352702","datePublished":"2024-08-02T21:58:31+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T21:58:32+01:00","articleBody":"Riots in Sunderland have seen at least one vehicle and building set on fire, along with an attempted attack on a mosque.\n \nBut this 'tiny minority causing trouble' doesn't represent the city, according to Lewis Atkinson, Labour MP for Sunderland Central.\n \nHe said: 'Tomorrow the people of Sunderland will come together and continue to build the bright future that we have - a future where every community of our city feels safe and prospers.'","headline":"Sunderland 'will come together' as MP condemns violence","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21352687","datePublished":"2024-08-02T21:53:32+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T21:53:32+01:00","articleBody":"\n \nProtesters and their sympathisers have repeatedly insisted they are not far-right as riots spread across the country this week.\n \nThis is despite men in balaclavas, often wrapped in England flags, attacked mosques, refugees and police while chanting anti-immigrant slogans.\n \nNow footage has emerged of a bare-chest men with a swastika tattoo on his back in Sunderland.\n \nThe black symbol in a white circle in the centre of red rectangle is in the same style as flags of Nazi Germany, which killed millions of Jewish people and other victims during the Holocaust, mostly in gas chambers.\n \nA gas mask is visible on the other side of the man's back.","headline":"Swastika spotted on Sunderland protester's tattooed back","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21352668","datePublished":"2024-08-02T21:42:13+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T21:42:48+01:00","articleBody":"\n \nAn overturned car has been set alight, supermarket shoppers have been trapped in Aldi, and both bricks and beer barrels have been lobbed at police as protesters tried to attack a mosque.\n \nNow a Sunderland police station is on fire, with flames roaring out the front. \n \nThe chop of a helicopter can be heard overhead in a video shared of the fire at Sunderland Central Police Station on Waterloo Place.\n \nProtesters have been chanting slogans supporting EDL founder Tommy Robinson and opposing Islam as they gathered a few streets away in Keel Square tonight.\n \nSome have sprayed police with fire extinguishers along the adjacent High West Street.","headline":"Police station up in flames as Sunderland riot spirals into chaos","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21352593","datePublished":"2024-08-02T21:10:23+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T21:10:23+01:00","articleBody":"With riots spreading across the country, and police forces grappling to contain the violence, the prosecution service is working overtime.\n \nExtra prosecutors have been called in to work over the weekend, according to the Director of Public Prosecutions.\n \nStephen Parkinson said: 'We take the recent incidents of violent disorder extremely seriously and we are ready to respond rapidly if there is a fresh outbreak.\n \n'We have deployed dozens of extra prosecutors who are working round the clock this weekend, supporting the police, and ready to make immediate charging decisions so that justice is swiftly delivered.'","headline":"No weekend off for prosecutors as they're drafted in to prosecute rioters","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21352574","datePublished":"2024-08-02T21:03:25+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T21:14:22+01:00","articleBody":"\n \n\n \n","headline":"PICTURES: Car toppled and set alight in Sunderland","author":{"name":"katie-boyden"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21352528","datePublished":"2024-08-02T20:49:03+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T20:56:09+01:00","articleBody":"\n \nTensions have started to rise in Liverpool after a far-right demonstrator crossed the road towards Abdullah Quilliam Mosque.\n \nA man filming with his phone as he drove past in a car has also riled up the crowd of counter-demonstrators.\n \nRiot police swept in to keep apart the two groups, who have otherwise largely remained perched on their respective sides of the road.\n \nAnti-fascist counter-demonstrators have been drowning out the far-right with chants of 'Nazi scum off our streets', 'There are many many more of us than you', and 'Refugees are welcome here'.\n \n\n \n","headline":"Far-right drowned out by hundreds of counter-protesters in Liverpool","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21352494","datePublished":"2024-08-02T20:39:48+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T21:06:34+01:00","articleBody":"\n \nProtesters in Sunderland appear to have turned the police's horses against them by scooping up the dung and throwing it at officers.\n \nMeanwhile, customers are cowering inside the Aldi opposite Millfield Mosque where this is all taking place.\n \nRiot police have formed a human barrier around the religious and community building.\n \nBut they've become the targets of bricks, poppers and plant pots thrown by protesters.\n \nNorth East Mayor Kim McGuinness said: 'I'm appalled by scenes from Sunderland. Make no mistake, if your response to tragedy is to use it to commit violence, to abuse others, attack the police and damage property you stand for nothing except thuggery. It's not protest.\n \n'It's crime and disorder. You don't speak for Sunderland. You don't speak for this region.\n \n'Those grieving in Southport will take no comfort from this.'","headline":"Aldi customers trapped inside as protesters pelt police with horse poo","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21352459","datePublished":"2024-08-02T20:30:09+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T20:55:22+01:00","articleBody":"\n \nThings are relatively quieter in Liverpool where the up to 300 anti-fascist counter-demonstrators vastly outnumber the far-right.\n \nOrganisers of the protest targeting the Abdullah Quilliam Mosque, the UK's first when it opened in 1889, had sold it as a 'major clash'.\n \nBut just 70 have responded to the call to arms, leaving them standing somewhat sheepishly across the road.\n \nHolding a placard saying 'Nans against Nazis', 70-year-old Pat said: 'We're telling them wherever they go, we'll be there. We've never allowed them in the city of Liverpool.'She first protested 50 years ago against the National Front, and this fixture of Liverpool's anti-fascist movement has no intention of stopping.Pat said: 'Someone said to me \"you're too old, don't be doing this\", but as long as they're here someone's got to do it.'\n \nLiverpool has a reputation for chasing out the far-right time after time, trapping them in a train station's lost luggage, or pelting them with bananas, to the Benny Hill theme tune.\n \nBut local anti-fascists have been worried since a riot outside the Suites Hotel, housing asylum seekers, in nearby Kirkby caught them off guard last year.\n \nThen, they found themselves unexpectedly outnumbered by the rioters who set fires, threw projectiles and shouted abuse, leaving counterdemonstrators feeling scared as they were trapped between fences and police.","headline":"'Nans against Nazis' join counter-protest outside Liverpool mosque.","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21352399","datePublished":"2024-08-02T20:17:29+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T20:57:10+01:00","articleBody":"\n \nBricks lie at the feet of horses mounted by police officers, who've come under attack during the protests in Sunderland.\n \nWhile some protesters stand on the pavement waving handheld Union Jacks as they watch on, others have taken a more violent route.\n \nPictures show beer splattering the window of a police car as a can is thrown at it.\n \nBut that's perhaps a softer projectile than the stones and bricks flying through the air.\n \n\n \n\n \n","headline":"Chaos as protesters climb police vans and hurl bricks","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21352362","datePublished":"2024-08-02T20:06:42+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T20:06:52+01:00","articleBody":"\n \nA black car, which appears to be a taxi, was surrounded by men wearing balaclavas outside the Holiday Inn near Sunderland City Hall.\n \nThey kicked its headlights and pelted it with stones as the air was filled with smoke.\n \nOne witness can be heard saying, 'There's no need for this at all', as a car horn honks in the background.","headline":"Taxi smashed up by men in masks in Sunderland","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21352286","datePublished":"2024-08-02T19:54:34+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T19:57:48+01:00","articleBody":"\n \nRoughly a mile away from the protest outside Sunderland City Hall, a smaller crowd has gathered outside Masjid e Anwaar e Madinah, otherwise known as Millfield Mosque, on St Mark's Road.\n \nSome individuals wearing balaclavas or draped in flags have charged at riot police shouting 'this is our land' and calling police traitors.\n \nOthers have hurled stones and beer cans in their direction.\n \nMounted police have attempted to push them back.","headline":"Stones and beer cans fly through air outside Sunderland mosque","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21352215","datePublished":"2024-08-02T19:27:31+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T20:58:10+01:00","articleBody":"\n \nProtesters have appeared in balaclavas, set off flares and waved around what appears to be a bottle of spirits at a protest outside Sunderland Town Hall.\n \nThe protest was due to start at 7pm, but already a police car has had its window smashed and been pelted with beer cans.\n \n'Enough is enough', a promotional post shared on social media by Tommy Robinson had said.\n \n'Let's get this country back to normal and stop playing lottery with our children lives.'\n \nHundreds of people are believed to be at the scene, some of whom are carrying England flags and Union Jacks.\n \nIt's just a 15-minute walk away from the central mosque, causing one local to 'worry about the community'.\n \nThey said: 'They have brought police in from Newcastle. It's really concerning that loads of cars are beeping and are supporting them.\n \n'I expected a large volume of people but it's concerning that there are children in the crowd.\n \n'I've seen kids who are six or seven. I can see balaclava teenagers. There are cops with tear gas strapped to them.'Another person said: 'They are going to kick off. This will be like Hartlepool and Southport in a couple of hours.'There are children who are being radicalised. It's very concerning.'","headline":"Window smashed as men in balaclavas appear at Sunderland protest","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21352181","datePublished":"2024-08-02T19:15:50+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T19:15:50+01:00","articleBody":"The Abdullah Quilliam Mosque is hoping for a peaceful discussion with protesters who are due to gather outside this evening.\n \nBut Merseyside Police are taking 'pro-active measures' by expanding their ability to stop and search people within a certain area of Liverpool, covering most of the city's mosques.\n \nThis evening's demonstration has been described as a 'major clash' in graphics shared in Telegram channels alongside racist and violent content.\n \n\n \nIt was called after the fatal stabbings in Southport, which prompted a riot on Tuesday night, less than 20 miles to the north of Liverpool.\n \nInspector Leigh Price said: 'We have taken the pro-active measure of introducing a Section 60 in this area in light of the disgraceful disorder we witnessed in Southport on Tuesday evening.\n \n'These extra powers will allow officers to stop and search people suspected of carrying weapons or planning any criminality as we seek to keep the public safe.\n \n'People and business owners in the Liverpool area can expect to see a highly visible police presence. I hope their continued presence is reassuring, and I would ask anyone with concerns to speak to our officers.'","headline":"Stop and search powers expanded in Liverpool as mosque prepares for protest","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21352165","datePublished":"2024-08-02T19:08:12+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T19:08:12+01:00","articleBody":"\n \nA burnt out car, a street strewn with bricks, and patches of flames where the debris still smouldered.\n \nElsewhere, flames could be seen reaching dangerously close to houses along a residential street of redbrick terraced houses.\n \nThose are the scenes shown in footage from the bodycams worn by riot police who batted away 'missiles' with their shields during the riot in Southport on Tuesday.\n \nMen can even be seen throwing entire black wheelie bins at police.\n \nNumerous arrests were made during and after the riot, which led to the expansion of police stop and search powers in Southport this week.\n \n'Anyone who intends to cause future damage and harm to our communities and our officers will be dealt with robustly, using all our available powers', Assistant Chief Constable Jenny Sims said.","headline":"Bodycam footage reveals chaos amid fire and 'missiles' in Southport riot","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21352110","datePublished":"2024-08-02T18:51:05+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T18:51:06+01:00","articleBody":"Community leaders are apprehensive ahead of a planned protest outside a mosque in Liverpool, the first ever opened in the UK, at 8pm tonight.\n \nPromotional material is already describing the demonstration as a 'major clash', according to graphics shared on social media.\n \nIt harks back to the Victorian era, when crowds pelted stones and manure at the Abdullah Quilliam Mosque's founders as they left the building.\n \nAnti-fascist demonstrators are gathering outside the face down the threat of violence.\n \nBut mosque officials are taking a different approach, offering food, drink and conversation to anyone who attends the protest.\n \nAdam Kelwick said: 'Bring your concerns in, let's have a discussion about issues which are affecting our communities and how we can work together to solve them.\n \n'The things which affect our society also affect us as a Muslim community.'\n \n\nhttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/C-I330-IowY\/?igsh=ZG10MGE1a2dnM2pu","headline":"Liverpool mosque to serve burgers and chips to protesters","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21351691","datePublished":"2024-08-02T17:14:13+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T17:14:13+01:00","articleBody":"The Metropolitan Police has imposed a Section 14 condition on another Enough is Enough protest planned in London on Saturday, August 3.\n \nAnyone taking part in the assembly must remain within the shaded area of Piccadilly Circus.\n \nAnother gathering also billed as an 'Enough is Enough' demonstration caused chaos in London on Wednesday night after police officers were attacked and crowds ignored the Section 14 condition in place to march through central London. \n \n\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/metpoliceuk\/status\/1819404387770417331","headline":"Police order imposed on Enough is Enough demo on Saturday in London","author":{"name":"katie-boyden"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21351085","datePublished":"2024-08-02T16:00:17+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T16:00:17+01:00","articleBody":"Sir Keir Starmer returned to Southport on Friday, visiting the town for the second time this week after Monday\u2019s knife attack.\n \nThe Prime Minister met with members of the local community, according to the Liverpool Echo, along with metro mayor Steve Rotheram, Merseyside Chief Constable Serena Kennedy and representatives from the police, faith groups, health services and the education and voluntary sectors.\n \nHe also paid a visit to Alder Hey Children\u2019s Hospital in Liverpool, where many of the victims of Monday\u2019s attack were treated.\n \nSir Keir thanked staff for their hard work and professionalism in responding to the attack.","headline":"Starmer returns to Southport","author":{"name":"brooke-davies"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21350673","datePublished":"2024-08-02T15:17:45+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T16:16:47+01:00","articleBody":"\n \nSteven Mailen, 54, of Elliott Street, Hartlepool, and Ryan Sheers, 28, of Powlett Road, admitted violent disorder during a hearing at Teesside Magistrates\u2019 Court.\n \nPaul Doney, prosecuting, said Mailen was 'constantly in the face of officers' and was gesticulating towards them, shouting, until he was struck on the leg by an officer\u2019s extendable baton.\n \nHis partner Sheers, who wept during the hearing, was then bitten on the hip by a police dog, the court heard.\n \nHe had been trying to push through the police cordon, shouting and refusing to move away.\n \nThe defendants, who have no previous convictions, were granted bail by District Judge Helen Cousins to appear before Teesside Crown Court for sentencing on September 2.\n \nSheers, formerly a McDonalds worker, was emotional and said: 'Thank you judge, thank you.'","headline":"Man cries in court after admitting violent disorder","author":{"name":"brooke-davies"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21350567","datePublished":"2024-08-02T15:06:12+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T15:06:12+01:00","articleBody":"Urgent action is needed to tackle the 'tsunami of lies' on social media which fanned the flames of protest across the UK, a leading expert on right-wing extremism has said.\n \nProfessor Matthew Feldman said that within 30 hours of fake news emerging online about the suspect in the Southport stabbings, it had spread across multiple platforms, and sparked protests that led to 53 police officers being hurt.\n \nHe welcomed Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's announcement of a new 'national' response to the violent disorder but called for a corresponding response online.\n \nProf Feldman said: 'Tougher laws are needed. There has been much debate about the long delayed Online Harms Bill.\n \n'I would encourage thinking about a taskforce, not just policing boots on the ground but an internet taskforce that can do the same, not just moving around the country physically, but moving around the platforms to take down misinformation and incitement.\n \n'We would only be looking at the minor part of the picture if we did not take seriously the way in which misinformation and lies on social media led us to this very heart-breaking point.'","headline":"Social media firms must tackle 'tsunami of lies' online","author":{"name":"brooke-davies"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21350555","datePublished":"2024-08-02T15:03:53+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T15:03:53+01:00","articleBody":"Mosques in Milton Keynes may be targeted in a potential far-right protest in the city. \n \nEmily Darlington, MP for Milton Keynes Central, said: 'Getting reports of targeting of mosques in Milton Keynes. \n \n'This is not reflective of our inclusive and diverse city and I absolutely condemn any violent acts. \n \n'We are an amazing city and we will not let people that engage in this destructive behaviour damage us.' \n \n\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/emily4MK\/status\/1819359007737364960","headline":"Mosques in Milton Keynes set to be targeted","author":{"name":"brooke-davies"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21350030","datePublished":"2024-08-02T13:53:03+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T13:53:03+01:00","articleBody":"Three man alleged to have taken part in violent disorder in Hartlepool on Wednesday night have been remanded in custody.\n \nPeter Clark, 47, of no fixed address, was charged with violent disorder and exposure after allegedly showing his buttocks and genitalia to police.\n \nAnthony Allen, 42, of Ormesby Road, Hartlepool, appeared at Teesside Magistrates' Court, charged with violent disorder and assaulting an emergency worker.\n \nJames Elliott, 41, of Raby Road, Hartlepool, was with him in the dock, charged with violent disorder.\n \nNo pleas were entered to any of the charges.\n \nPaul Doney, prosecuting, told Teesside Magistrates' Court that 200 people were in a group which initially met at the Cenotaph in Hartlepool on Wednesday evening, and they moved towards mosques and a community centre.\n \nDistrict Judge Helen Cousins refused bail for two of the accused: Anthony Allen and James Elliott.\n \nWhen the judge gave her decision about Allen, there was an outburst from the public gallery, with someone shouting: 'Out of order.'\n \nPeter Clark did not apply for bail and all three were told they would next appear at Teesside Crown Court on September 2.","headline":"Man remanded in custody for 'showing his buttocks and genitalia to police' during riot","author":{"name":"brooke-davies"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21350016","datePublished":"2024-08-02T13:49:58+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T13:49:58+01:00","articleBody":"\n \nA number of nurseries in Wigan went into lockdown this morning after a false report on social media reported there had been a stabbing.\n \nAn alert from one of the nurseries read: 'There have been posts on social media this morning regarding an incident on Enfield Street.\n \n'As a result of the alarming reports we have made the decision to put the nursery into a full lockdown. All our children are safe and being well cared for by our fabulous staff.'\n \nA larger than normal emergency response was sent to the scene as an iPhone detected a crash and sent an alert to emergency services.\n \nFollowing the large response a false report began to circulate on social media alleging the police response was due to a stabbing and that an offender was at large.\n \nGreater Manchester Police confirmed the stabbing was a false report.","headline":"Nurseries in Wigan put into lockdown after lies spread on social media about stabbing","author":{"name":"brooke-davies"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21349896","datePublished":"2024-08-02T13:35:17+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T13:35:17+01:00","articleBody":"The Russian Embassy in the UK has denied reports they were involved in the far-right riots this week. \n \nA fake news website with links to Russia was found to have helped spread an incorrect name which led to the violent protests. \n \nThe account, called Channel3 Now, masquerades as an American news network. \n \nThey published a false claim that the alleged murderer was an asylum seeker called Ali Al-Shakati who was \u2018on the MI6 watch list\u2019 and \u2018known to\u00a0mental health\u00a0services\u2019.\n \nThe claims were immediately amplified by Russian state media and far-right influencers\u00a0Tommy Robinson\u00a0and\u00a0Andrew Tate.\n \nThe suspect has been charged and was named in court as\u00a0Axel Rudakubana\u00a0after a judge lifted reporting restictions which would have granted him anonymity until he turned 18.","headline":"Russia denies involvement in far-right riots","author":{"name":"brooke-davies"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21349841","datePublished":"2024-08-02T13:28:10+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T13:28:11+01:00","articleBody":"\n \nThe security at hotels housing asylum seekers is under 'continuous review', the Home Office has said. \n \nIt comes as potential far-right protests are being planned across the UK, with asylum seeker accommodation set to be targeted, HOPE not hate found. \n \nA protest is due to be held outside a Holiday inn Express in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, which is said to house migrants. \n \nThe Home Office said: 'All accommodation sites have security staff and we continually review the security at asylum accommodation\u00a0sites with providers.\n \n'When using sites for asylum accommodation, we engage with local police and other community stakeholders as early as possible to identify any tensions.'","headline":"Migrant hotels reviewing security ahead of potential far-right riots","author":{"name":"brooke-davies"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21349798","datePublished":"2024-08-02T13:19:27+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T13:19:27+01:00","articleBody":"HOPE not hate said they have identified at least 35 demonstrations to take place from Friday to Sunday. \n \nAsylum seeker accommodation is set to be targeted in the demonstrations. \n \nJoe Mulhall, Director of Research at HOPE not hate said: 'More than 30 protests are planned for this coming weekend after violent scenes in Southport.\n \n'Whilst there is no single organiser fronting these protests, all of them are under a broad anti-multiculturalism, anti-Muslim and anti-Government banner.\n \n'There\u2019s no telling the size and tone of each event but we are deeply concerned that many will turn violent.\n \n'We are urging the police to make the necessary arrangements to protect communities targeted by the far right.'","headline":"At least 35 protests planned this weekend across UK","author":{"name":"brooke-davies"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21349745","datePublished":"2024-08-02T13:10:59+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T13:11:00+01:00","articleBody":"\n \nThames Valley Police said it is aware of a potential planned protest this weekend in High Wycombe and that officers would 'swiftly respond' if it escalates into violent disorder.\n \nA spokesperson for the force said: 'Thames Valley Police is aware of a potential planned protest this weekend in High Wycombe.\n \n'We are committed to facilitating a peaceful protest and the right to freedom of expression, while also keeping the community safe and so officers will be out in the area tomorrow.\n \n'Should this planned peaceful protest escalate into violent disorder seen elsewhere in the country, officers will swiftly respond and deal with those choosing to cause harm to our communities.\n \n'We have a plan in place for this weekend to deal with any issues that may arise.'","headline":"Officers vow to 'swiftly respond' to potential protest planned in High Wycombe","author":{"name":"brooke-davies"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21349595","datePublished":"2024-08-02T12:59:56+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T14:10:39+01:00","articleBody":"The Police Service of Northern Ireland said it is aware of calls 'to block roads using women and children' and for a march to an Islamic centre in Belfast to be held on Saturday.\n \nPSNI Chief Superintendent Stephen Murray said: 'Police are aware of social media posts calling for protests across Northern Ireland this Saturday, 3rd of August.\n \n'We are aware of specific calls to block roads using women and children between 12 midday to 2pm in Newtownabbey, Carrickfergus, Bangor and north, south, east and west Belfast.\n \n'We are also aware of calls for protest at 12 midday at Belfast City Hall and a 1pm march to the Islamic Centre, University Road, Belfast.\n \n'To date no such procession has been notified to the parades commission.\n \n'It is unclear at this time what the actual provenance for these posts or appetite for this activity is.\n \n'We will continue to plan a proportionate policing response and will continue to engage with those groups likely to be affected by any protest activity.'","headline":"Police aware protestors 'want to block roads using women and children'","author":{"name":"brooke-davies"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21349470","datePublished":"2024-08-02T12:48:49+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T12:48:49+01:00","articleBody":"Mosques are preparing security measures ahead of this weekend over fears more violent far-right riots will be held across the country. \n \nZara Mohammed, the secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said: 'There is really deep-seated anxiety amongst Muslim communities, particularly for this weekend.\n \n'Yesterday we heard mosques saying they\u2019d had threats on the phone about targeted attacks\u2026 we had a lot of anxiety around security and having enough protection.'\n \nShe added mosques are being encouraged to make sure doors and windows are secure, risk assessments are carried out and security is paid to stay on site. Ms Mohammed stressed the need for Muslim communities to have a 'direct relationship' with local police forces during the disorder.\n \nAmong the areas she says could be targeted are Liverpool, Glasgow, Lancaster, Blackburn, Newcastle, Birmingham, Sunderland, Dover, Middlesborough, Leeds and Hull.","headline":"Mosques are strengthening security measures ahead of this weekend","author":{"name":"brooke-davies"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21349017","datePublished":"2024-08-02T12:00:27+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T12:00:27+01:00","articleBody":"Daniel Thomas, often referred to as the 'right hand man' of\u00a0English Defence League (EDL)\u00a0co-founder Tommy Robinson, was one of the key figures responsible for organising the far-right rally in Southport on Tuesday which descended into chaos.\n \nJust hours after the attacks on Monday, Thomas posted a video to his followers urging them to 'mobilise'. On Wednesday, he called for more even more action, this time across the entire country.\n \nRead the full story about how the far-right organised themselves in the wake of the Southport tragedy below:\n \n\nhttps:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/08\/02\/tommy-robinsons-right-hand-led-edl-hijack-murders-three-children-21347135","headline":"How Tommy Robinson\u2019s right hand man led the EDL to hijack murders of three children","author":{"name":"Tom Sanders"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21348888","datePublished":"2024-08-02T11:49:41+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T11:49:41+01:00","articleBody":"A man has been charged with violent disorder over a protest in Manchester on Wednesday.\n \nJoshua Stokes, of Ten Acres Lane, Manchester, was part of a group of around 40 people gathered outside a Holiday Inn hotel on Oldham Road.\n \nResidents saw crowds in balaclavas shouting and throwing rocks and bottles before being chased by riot police.\n \nStokes was remanded into custody to appear at Manchester and Salford Magistrates Court today.","headline":"Manchester man charged with violent disorder over protest in Manchester","author":{"name":"Tom Sanders"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21348713","datePublished":"2024-08-02T11:27:43+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T11:35:47+01:00","articleBody":"\n \nMerseyside Police have said they are aware of online speculation about future protests and have 'extensive plans and considerable police resources' in place to deal with them, a senior officer has said.\n \nAssistant Chief Constable Jenny Sims said: 'I want to reassure residents that we are fully prepared for any possible disorder in the future.\n \n'Police and our partners also want to remind people of the dangers of misinformation and speculation online, and how it can have real-world consequences that put innocent people in harm\u2019s way.\n \n'People who maliciously spread misinformation want to cause division and hatred in our communities, and it\u2019s completely unacceptable.\n \n'I would continue to ask people to be mindful of the damage that such actions can cause and to always question the source of information when viewing anything on social media.\n \n'Finally, I want to make this absolutely clear: anyone who intends to cause future damage and harm to our communities will be dealt with robustly, using all our available powers.\n \n'There are extensive plans and considerable police resources in place to quickly deal with anyone intent on causing disorder over the coming days. We will look to bring to justice every person who is identified committing criminal damage and acts of violence against police staff, officers and our communities.'","headline":"Merseyside police have 'extensive plans' in place to deal with rioters","author":{"name":"Tom Sanders"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21348283","datePublished":"2024-08-02T10:26:33+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T10:26:33+01:00","articleBody":"John Woodcock, the UK Government's adviser on political violence and disruption, says police should be prepared to step in if it appears troublemakers are travelling to incite riots.\n \nWoodcock, a crossbench peer, said disinformation contributed to the unrest which broke out in a number of locations around England following the Southport murders.\n \nThe peer told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland radio programme there was a 'concerted and co-ordinated' attempt to spread the violence.\n \nHe said: 'Clearly, some of those far-right actors have got a taste for this and are trying to provoke similar in towns and cities across the UK.'\n \nThe peer said there is a 'symbiotic relationship' between far-right activists and hostile states on social media.\n \nAsked about the best way to prevent the riots, he said protests were sometimes being used as a cover for 'violent action'.\n \nHe said: 'The police do have powers to be able to identify the troublemakers, there are new laws in place which can restrict the movement of those who are known and have a track record of violent or illegal disruption and criminality.\n \n'They should be stopped from coming to the sites of protests as they're being organised.'\n \nHe continued: 'The police should be prepared to step in where they can.\n \n'Where there is these kinds of gatherings which are just designed to be fanning the flames of violence, (they) should be stopping people gathering.\n \n'People absolutely have the right to protest in this country, but they do not have the right to riot.'","headline":"Police should 'step in' to stop people travelling to riots","author":{"name":"Tom Sanders"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21347497","datePublished":"2024-08-02T08:57:06+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T08:57:06+01:00","articleBody":"A Home Office minister has warned protesters 'we will be watching you' as concerns over escalating violence in the wake of the Southport attacks continues to escalate.\n \nAsked how concerned the Government is about the prospect of further disorder on the streets this weekend, Lord Hanson told LBC Radio: 'There is that potential.\n \n'But I always say to anybody who's organising this, we will be watching you. If you are organising this now, we will be watching you.\n \n'We have powers under existing legislation to stop you organising this now and to take action accordingly, and if you do take action and are not part of any organised group, be prepared to face the full force of the law on this criminal activity.'\n \nAsked whether those involved are from the far right, he said: 'Some individuals will have far-right opinions, in my view, some might be caught up in the summer madness. Some might be people who've got genuine concerns.\n \n'Whatever those concerns are, there are mechanisms where they can raise them with their Member of Parliament, they can peacefully protest and they can take those issues forward.'","headline":"Home Office warns protesters 'we will be watching you'","author":{"name":"Tom Sanders"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21347462","datePublished":"2024-08-02T08:53:50+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T08:53:50+01:00","articleBody":"Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram said Nigel Farage was giving 'legitimacy' to violent protesters and 'excusing them' in the wake of the Southport stabbings.\n \nMr Rotheram told ITV's Good Morning Britain: 'Whilst senior politicians like Farage should be condemning these people - he's not, he's excusing them.\n \n'He's giving them some legitimacy to go out and perpetrate some of these acts.'\n \nFormer head of counter-terrorism policing Neil Basu said Mr Farage 'should think very carefully' about 'the power of his words'.\n \nAsked about comments made by the Reform UK leader, Mr Basu told the programme: 'That is a far-right politician once again trying to direct policing and law and order.\n \n'He doesn't speak for tens of millions of people, the Prime Minister does - who has to serve the whole population, not just the ones he likes.\n \n'And this is not the first time a politician has tried to interfere with operational policing, particularly from that section of politics.'\n \nMr Basu warned that police forces could be facing a 'long, hot summer'.","headline":"Nigel Farage accused of 'legitimising' violent protests","author":{"name":"Tom Sanders"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21346134","datePublished":"2024-08-01T23:07:54+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T23:07:54+01:00","articleBody":"Far-right activists like Tommy Robinson have been promoting demonstrations in towns and cities across the UK this Friday, Saturday and Sunday.\n \nMost of the protests include slogans like 'enough is enough', 'stop the boats' and 'save our kids' in their social media posts. All claim to be peaceful.\n \nBut after violence broken out in Southport, Manchester, London and Aldershot, with mosques, refugees and an Asian man attacked, people fear further riots.\n \nMore than 100 mosques have sought help in recent days from Mosque Security, a company advising Muslim leaders on protection.\n \nShaukat Warraich, its director, blames 'the false anti-Muslim narrative being peddled following the Southport murders', The Guardian reported.\n \nIman Atta, director of Tell Mama, which tracks Islamophobia, said: 'We absolutely need to see the police organise and step up their patrols around mosques and asylum seeker accommodation.'It would be good to see neighbourhood teams change their patrol times to provide additional reassurance to the communities.'Last week has demonstrated how the far right can organise online and promote hate and misinformation towards Muslim communities, refugees and asylum seekers.'We ask communities to keep calm, look out for each other and to remain vigilant.'","headline":"Mosques call for more security as at least a dozen far-right protests planned for this weekend","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21345940","datePublished":"2024-08-01T22:16:43+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T22:16:43+01:00","articleBody":"Before the riot in Southport on Tuesday, an anonymous TikTok account going by the username @quercrqfi6j started posting.\n \nSeeming to piggyback off misinformation around the identity of the alleged attacker, they shared graphics demanding mass deportations.\n \nThey also urged people to wear masks when they assembled on St Luke's Road in Southport that night. Larger accounts on X gave them a boost.\n \nThen the violence kicked off. The TikTok account has now been deleted.\n \nBut since then, similar accounts have been sharing nearly identical content in an attempt to draw out crowds elsewhere in the UK, a Sky News investigation revealed.\n \nEach has a series of flame emojis after the text.\n \nDespite being brand new accounts, some with no followers, they've found support in the form of a Telegram channel sharing their content soon after they're posted.\n \nWho's behind them? That's not yet known, but Sky News suggests 'that a single person or group is using deceptive tactics to replicate the riot in Southport in multiple cities'.","headline":"Anonymous TikTok accounts fuelling unrest across UK","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21345831","datePublished":"2024-08-01T21:37:21+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T12:44:36+01:00","articleBody":"Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has criticised Prime Minister Keir Starmer for blaming the far-right for riots that have broken out across the UK this week.\n \nThe recently elected MP didn't make his usual case for reducing immigration.\n \nHe also didn't call on the Prime Minister to 'stop the boats', a phrase that echoed through this week's protests during which mosques, refugees and an Asian man were attacked.\n \nInstead he blamed the violence on declining law and order, and a failure to crack down on knife crime.\n \nFarage said: 'The far-right are a reaction to fear, to discomfort, to unease that is out there, shared by tens of millions of people.\n \n'Let me be clear, I don't support street violence, I don't support thuggery in any way at all.\n \nBut I am worried, not just about the events in Southport, but about societal decline that is happening in our country.\n \nLaw and order, folks, on our streets is breaking down. This Prime Minister hasn't got an earthly clue how to deal with it.\n \n'We need to start getting tough. We need to use stop and search, regardless of the colour of the skin of anyone that gets stopped. We need tougher prison sentences for anybody carrying a knife.\n \n'We need folks to get real, because I tell you what, what you've seen on the streets of Hartlepool, of London, of Southport, is nothing to what could happen over the course of the next few weeks. Let's have proper law and order.'\n \n\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/Nigel_Farage\/status\/1819101701975978170","headline":"Nigel Farage warns violence could get worse","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21345779","datePublished":"2024-08-01T21:22:38+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T21:22:39+01:00","articleBody":"The child's arrest comes after a police vehicle was set on fire during a protest in Hartlepool on Wednesday.\n \nPolice officers were pelted with eggs and broken bottles during the disturbances, with several officers injured.\n \nCleveland Police Assistant Chief Constable David Felton said: 'This is very much a live investigation and we are continuing to work to identify those involved in the disorder yesterday evening and bring them to justice.'Disorder of this kind will not be tolerated and those found to be involved will be robustly dealt with.'","headline":"Boy, 11, arrested on suspicion of arson after Hartlepool riot","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21345731","datePublished":"2024-08-01T21:10:12+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T21:10:12+01:00","articleBody":"The Prime Minister vowed to crackdown on 'gangs of violent thugs' and make Muslim communities feel safe in the UK after riots this week.\n \nBut Keir Starmer has been accused of not doing enough to tackle the cause of violence that's seen rioters attack mosques, refugees and asylum seekers, and a random Asian man walking down the street this week.\n \nSilkie Carlo, director of civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch, said: 'It's deeply worrying that the Prime Minister totally failed to address the causes of the violent, racist thuggery we have witnessed in Britain this week, let alone his failure to even address the causes of the heinous knife crime that has cruelly taken so many lives.'To promise the country ineffective AI surveillance in these circumstances was, frankly, tone deaf and will give the public absolutely no confidence that this Government has the competence or conviction to get tough on the causes of these crimes and protect the public.'\n \nShe added: 'The Prime Minister's alarming pledge today to roll out facial recognition in an apparent response to recent disorder is a pledge to plunder more vital police resources on mass surveillance that threatens rather than protects democracy.\n \n'This AI surveillance turns members of the public into walking ID cards, is dangerously inaccurate and has no explicit legal basis in the UK.\n \n'Whilst common in Russia and China, live facial recognition is banned in Europe.'","headline":"Keir Starmer 'failed to address the causes of the violent, racist thuggery'","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21345631","datePublished":"2024-08-01T20:30:51+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T20:30:51+01:00","articleBody":"Empty buckets of water have gradually been filled with flowers near where three young girls lost their lives in the fatal stabbing on Monday.\n \nThey're surrounded by balloons, stuffed toys and cards people have left to commemorate six-year-old Bebe King, seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe, nine-year-old Alice Dasilva Aguiar.\n \nIt is located on Maple Street, just off Hart Street where the attack took place.\n \n\n \n","headline":"Tributes grow near scene of fatal stabbing","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21345432","datePublished":"2024-08-01T19:36:19+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T19:36:20+01:00","articleBody":"Expanded stop and search powers introduced across Southport yesterday afternoon have been extended until tomorrow.\n \nThe 'enhanced powers' were initially put in place to minimise violence after bricks were thrown and vehicles were set on fire on.\n \nCommunity Inspector Doug Chadwick said: 'Section 60 orders are an effective tool in our efforts to protect the public from the violence and destruction the town saw on Tuesday, allowing us to stop and search people suspected of carrying weapons or planning any criminality.\n \n'People living in Southport will now be used to seeing a highly visible police presence on their streets.\n \n'I hope that presence is reassuring, and I would ask anyone with concerns to speak to our officers.'","headline":"Tougher police powers extended in Southport after riot","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21345299","datePublished":"2024-08-01T18:50:15+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T18:50:40+01:00","articleBody":"A crackle of thunder and a patter of rain may be just what police were hoping for tonight.\n \nThat's the case in London at least, where Met Office predictions have just come true.\n \nFear of further violence could well have been extinguished as a result.\n \n\u2018Hot weather and large groups leads to an outburst of violence', former Metropolitan Police detective Norman Brannan told Metro earlier today.\n \n\u2018Police officers pray for heavy rain. It dulls spirits and deters people from turning up.\u2019","headline":"Have prayers been answered as thunderstorms arrive?","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21345026","datePublished":"2024-08-01T18:01:07+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T12:44:38+01:00","articleBody":"\n \nUsually anyone involved in criminal proceedings under the age of 18 is automatically granted anonymity - that includes defendants, victims, and witnesses.This means the media can't name or picture them, or share identifying details like the school they attend, unless there are exceptional circumstances.That's why, until now, police and the press have referred to Rudakubana as 'a 17-year-old boy'.But today Judge Andrew Menary KC decided to name the defendant.The judge at Liverpool Crown Court said: 'Whilst I accept it is exceptional given his age, principally because he is 18 in six days' time, I do not make an order under section 45.'Continuing to prevent the full reporting has the disadvantage of allowing others to spread misinformation, in a vacuum.'Any order would have been lifted on Rudbakubana when he turned 18 anyway.The judge's decision comes after misinformation spread by fake news websites and social media accounts wrongly identified the suspect, forcing police to confirm a name spread online was incorrect.The false claim said the suspect had arrived to the UK by boat last year, sharing claims he was an MI6 watchlist.","headline":"Why has Axel Rudakubana been named before he turns 18?","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21344978","datePublished":"2024-08-01T17:52:45+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T17:53:00+01:00","articleBody":"As kids hurled bricks at riot police, a refugee family's home was targeted, and an Asian man was punched in the face as he walked down the street, the gates of Hartlepool\u2019s Nasir Mosque stayed securely locked.\n \nThis was thanks to a warning from police around 6.30pm last night, bringing an abrupt end to a night class for children as the mosque was urged to lock up.\n \nIts imam, Tahir Selby, said today: 'I found out that the police had blocked the area to avoid any marches going past the mosque.\n \n'The police did a tremendous job. We\u2019re very grateful to them. We have a very good relationship with the police and we\u2019re very pleased that nothing happened here.'","headline":"Mosque told to lock gates as riot raged in Hartlepool","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21344898","datePublished":"2024-08-01T17:42:02+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T17:45:02+01:00","articleBody":"A Hampshire hotel thought to house refugees became the focus of an anti-migrant demonstration in Aldershot last night.\n \nIt's been the sites of protests before in recent months, but a protest, described as 'mob-type' by the local police and crime commissioner, turned violent on Wednesday.\n \nSome of the roughly 200 protesters, who carried signs calling for deportations, broke a perimeter wall so bricks could be thrown.\n \nOne police officer sustained minor injuries during the unrest at Potters International Hotel, according to Hampshire Police.\n \nAssistant Chief Constable Paul Bartolomeo: 'It is totally unacceptable to turn that lawful right into criminal acts including incidents of criminal damage, racial abuse and intimidation. This will not be tolerated.'\n \nThere has been some speculation that disruption was caused by people not from the local area.\n \nAldershot MP Alex Baker said: 'This incident was exacerbated by people from outside our community who came here determined to cause unrest.'","headline":"Wall broken so bricks could be thrown during Aldershot protest","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21344477","datePublished":"2024-08-01T16:43:16+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T16:43:16+01:00","articleBody":"The prime minister said police forces will come together to share information and make sure known rioters are not able to 'board the train in the first place'.\n \nHe said: 'These thugs are mobile, they move from community to community. We must have a policing response that can do the same.\n \n'Shared intelligence, wider deployment of facial recognition technology and preventive action, criminal behaviour orders to restrict their movements, before they can even board a train.\n \n'In just the same way that we do with football hooligans.'","headline":"Starmer promises to stop rioters 'moving from community to community'","author":{"name":"brooke-davies"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21344407","datePublished":"2024-08-01T16:36:54+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T16:36:55+01:00","articleBody":"\n \nStarmer warned large social media companies, reminding them 'violent disorder clearly whipped up online is also a crime and it is happening on your premises'. \n \nHe said: 'We will take all necessary action to keep our streets safe.' \n \nIt comes after Merseyside Police confirmed the name of the suspect circulating online was incorrect. \n \nA judge has since lifted reporting restrictions, naming the suspect as Axel Rudakubana.","headline":"Prime Minister warns social media companies as 'violent disorder was whipped up online'","author":{"name":"brooke-davies"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21344321","datePublished":"2024-08-01T16:28:12+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T16:28:13+01:00","articleBody":"","headline":"WATCH: Starmer promises to crack down on 'gang of thugs'","author":{"name":"brooke-davies"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21344270","datePublished":"2024-08-01T16:23:09+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T16:23:10+01:00","articleBody":"In his press conference, the prime minister condemned the actions 'gangs of violent thugs' following the riots across the UK. \n \nHe met with police chiefs today to discuss action to be taken against the far-right from travelling to areas to stir disorder. \n \nHe said: 'In the aftermath of the attack, the community of Southport had to suffer twice. \n \n'A gang of thugs got on trains and buses, went to a community that is not their own, a community grieving the most horrific tragedy, and then proceeded to throw bricks at police officers - police officers who just 24 hours earlier had been having to deal with an attack on children in their community.'","headline":"Keir Starmer announces a 'national capability' to challenge the 'the tiny mindless minority'","author":{"name":"brooke-davies"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21343440","datePublished":"2024-08-01T14:59:44+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T12:44:42+01:00","articleBody":"Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said 'action will be taken' following what he called 'violent disorder' in parts of England in the wake of the Southport stabbings.\n \nAt a meeting in Downing Street to discuss recent violent disorder in some towns in England in the wake of the Southport stabbings, he told police chiefs: 'I wanted to send a message to each of you and through you, your officers, to say that this Government supports the police, supports what you are doing and to be absolutely clear: This is not protest, this is violent disorder and action will be taken.\n \n'So, this Government will make sure you have got the powers you need and will back you in using those powers.'\n \n","headline":"Starmer says 'action will be taken' after riots","author":{"name":"Sam Corbishley"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21343321","datePublished":"2024-08-01T14:42:00+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T15:09:46+01:00","articleBody":"Axel Rudakubana was shouted at as he left Liverpool Crown Court this afternoon.\n \nAs the defendant left the court building in a police convoy, people jeered from a small crowds that had gathered in the street.\n \nA number of people shouted 'f****** scumbag' as the prison van pulled out of the complex, with a number of police vehicles escorting.\n \nMore than 30 police officers lined the edges of pavement as the convoy left and others stopped the traffic on the main road past Liverpool\u2019s docks.\n \n","headline":"Teenager heckled as he leaves court","author":{"name":"isobel-frodsham-met"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21343188","datePublished":"2024-08-01T14:29:14+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T14:31:50+01:00","articleBody":"Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood have also arrived at 10 Downing Street for the Prime Minister\u2019s meeting with police chiefs.\n \nAt least a dozen police chiefs have arrived for their meeting with the Prime Minister on Thursday afternoon.\n \nThe group entered 10 Downing Street and ignored questions from the gathered media about what they hoped to ask Sir Keir Starmer.\n \nFurther police chiefs are expected to arrive before the start of the meeting in at 2.30pm.\n \n","headline":"Home Secretary and Justice Secretary arrive at No 10","author":{"name":"Sam Corbishley"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21343042","datePublished":"2024-08-01T14:13:14+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T14:32:28+01:00","articleBody":"Sir Keir Starmer will hold a press conference at approximately 4pm today following a meeting with senior police chiefs about the disorder seen in parts of England.\n \nThe Prime Minister will speak about the gathering with policing leaders and take questions from the media, after scenes of violent unrest in London, Hartlepool and Manchester on Wednesday evening.\n \nRioters clashed with police in Southport on Tuesday, attacking officers and setting a van on fire, following the fatal stabbing of three children in the Lancashire town on Monday.\n \nA 17-year-old boy has appeared in court charged with three counts of murder, 10 counts of attempted murder and possession of a bladed article, in relation to the attack.\n \n","headline":"PM to hold press conference after meeting police chiefs","author":{"name":"Sam Corbishley"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21342729","datePublished":"2024-08-01T13:40:15+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T12:44:44+01:00","articleBody":"A fake news website with links to Russia helped spread lies about the Southport stabbings which led to a series of violent riots throughout the UK.\n \nIn the immediate aftermath of the attack on Monday, a Twitter account masquerading as an American news outlet published a false claims about the suspect's identity and background, claiming he was an 'illegal migrant' who was 'on an MI6 watch list'.\n \nThe claims were swiftly debunked but widely amplified in the meantime, and are credited with playing a role in sparking the wave of violence seen in Southport and throughout the country in recent days.\n \nHowever, closer inspection of 'Channel3 News' reveals it to have links to Russian intelligence services, amidst warnings that the Kremlim may be planning a social media disinformation campaign. \n \nRead the full story below:\n \n\nhttps:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/08\/01\/russian-linked-fake-news-outlet-spread-lies-southport-attacks-21341702","headline":"Fake news site spreading lies has links to Russia","author":{"name":"Tom Sanders"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21342632","datePublished":"2024-08-01T13:30:09+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T13:49:19+01:00","articleBody":"The country needs to have a conversation about false information spread by the far right on social media, Hartlepool's MP has said.\n \nJonathan Brash told BBC Radio 4's World At One programme: 'The conversation we need to start having is about the way these far-right groups are disseminating false information on social media.\n \n'Because I see it almost every single day - straight-up lies about these situations designed to cause violence, to incite racial hatred, to incite people to violence.\n \n'We have to deal with that situation because there is so much misinformation and it's being spread quite deliberately to stoke tension in communities and ultimately it's the communities that are suffering as a result.'\n \nLast night's violent unrest 'doesn't represent us as a town', Brash added, telling the broadcaster: 'This has clearly been co-ordinated on social media earlier in the day, so it's not clear what the mix was in terms of who was there.\n \n'But what's very, very clear, and I can't stress this enough, is the behaviour of that small minority of lawless individuals is not in any way, shape or form reflective of Hartlepool, its people, its values, most of whom have been getting in touch with me today to express their absolute disgust at what we saw on the streets last night.\n \n'It doesn't represent us as a town.'","headline":"UK needs to 'have a conversation' about social media misinfo, says Hartlepool MP","author":{"name":"Tom Sanders"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21342439","datePublished":"2024-08-01T13:05:09+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T14:11:33+01:00","articleBody":"\n \nAxel Rudakubana, who spent the entire 55 minutes of the hearing covering his whole face, with his grey sweatshirt pulled up to his hairline, and at times rocking back and forth and side to side, will next appear at Liverpool Crown Court on October 25.\n \nA provisional trial date, lasting six weeks, was scheduled for January 20, next year.\n \nJudge Menary told the defendant, who did not acknowledge the judge and continued to keep his head down: 'You are remanded to youth detention accommodation until these proceedings have been completed.\n \n'That position might change when you achieve your majority in a short while.'","headline":"Rudakubana kept face covered throughout hearing","author":{"name":"Tom Sanders"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21342268","datePublished":"2024-08-01T12:49:15+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T12:49:15+01:00","articleBody":"Axel Rudakubana is still underage and therefore unable to be indentified under UK law, he was due to turn 18 next week, on August 7.\n \nHowever, having heard arguments from the prosecution, defence and media about whether reporting his identity should be restricted until his 18th birthday, Judge Andrew Menary KC has decided to lift reporting restrictions.\n \nExplaining his judgement to the court, Judge Menary said: 'Continuing to prevent the full reporting has the disadvantage of allowing others to spread misinformation, in a vacuum.'\n \nHe added: 'Whilst I accept it is exceptional given his age, principally because he is 18 in six days time I do not make an order under section 45.'","headline":"Why has Rudakubana been identified?","author":{"name":"Tom Sanders"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21342204","datePublished":"2024-08-01T12:43:38+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T15:04:48+01:00","articleBody":"Axel Rudakubana has been further remanded in youth detention accommodation after appearing at Liverpool Crown Court.\n \nHe is charged with three counts of murder, 10 counts of attempted murder and possession of a bladed article following the attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport on Monday.\n \nHe is also accused of possessing a kitchen\u00a0knife\u00a0with a\u00a0curved\u00a0blade.\n \nDuring his first appearance in court earlier today, Rudakubana smiled at a row of reporters sat behind the glass dock before he was asked to sit down.","headline":"Suspect further remanded in custody","author":{"name":"Tom Sanders"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21342093","datePublished":"2024-08-01T12:30:04+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T12:44:50+01:00","articleBody":"\n \nA judge at Liverpool Crown Court has declined to make an order under Section 45 concerning the defendant\u2019s identity.\n \nThe suspect can now be named as Axel Rudakubana.\n \nThe 17-year-old, who turns 18 in just six days time, could previously not be named because of his age.\n \nHowever, he would have lost his anonymity on Wednesday when he turned 18.\n \nRudakubana was born to Rwandan parents in Cardiff before moving to the village of Banks in Lancashire.","headline":"Suspect named as Axel Rudakubana","author":{"name":"Tom Sanders"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21342049","datePublished":"2024-08-01T12:24:43+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T12:24:44+01:00","articleBody":"\n \n111 people were arrested during last night's riot in Whitehall, which saw police subjected to assault, abuse and violent disorder.\n \nA Met spokesman said arrests were made for offences including violent disorder, assaults on police officers, possession of knives and offensive weapons and breach of protest conditions.\n \nAssistant Commissioner Matt Twist said:\u00a0'Last night our officers faced unacceptable scenes of disorder and violence, as others across the country have done in recent days. They acted with great courage and the highest levels of professionalism in the face of hateful behaviour.\n \n'All our thoughts should be with the victims and families of those impacted by the most dreadful attack in Southport. It is shameful that some have sought to exploit this tragedy as justification for their own violence and criminality.'There is absolutely no place for this on our streets. We will ensure that anyone involved in any violent disorder and criminal behaviour will be stopped, arrested and will face justice.'\n \n\n \nAn arrest breakdown from the Met was as follows:\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nA further 60 people were arrested during the protest for failing to comply with conditions on the protest under Section 14 Public Order Act 1986. They were not taken in to custody but remain under investigation.","headline":"Police arrest 111 people after Whitehall riots","author":{"name":"Tom Sanders"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21341434","datePublished":"2024-08-01T11:19:03+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T12:44:52+01:00","articleBody":"Two of the children injured in Monday's stabbing attack in Southport on Monday have been discharged from hospital, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust has revealed.\n \nIn a statement, the trust said: 'We are delighted that two of the children involved in Monday's awful incident have now been discharged.\n \n'We continue to treat five children involved in the devastating incident in Southport on Monday, including one recently transferred to us from Aintree University Hospital.\n \n'All the children in our care are currently in a stable condition. Out heartfelt sympathies remain with all those affected by Monday's incident.\n \n'We will not be providing any further information.'","headline":"Two young stabbing victims discharged from hospital","author":{"name":"Tom Sanders"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21341424","datePublished":"2024-08-01T11:17:47+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T11:17:48+01:00","articleBody":"The defendant will shortly appear before Judge Andrew Menary KC, Recorder of Liverpool, at Liverpool Crown Court, which is in the same building as the Magistrates' Court.\n \nReporters have assembled in the courtroom and are awaiting the start of the hearing, which will deal with reporting restrictions currently in place on identifying the defendant and the child victims of the attack.","headline":"Suspect set to appear in Crown Court shortly","author":{"name":"Tom Sanders"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21341111","datePublished":"2024-08-01T10:48:26+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T10:48:27+01:00","articleBody":"Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has described the scenes from last night as 'completely unacceptable' and has pledged his full support for the Met to take action against those 'intent on violence, causing disorder and spreading division in our city'.\n \nIn a statement on X, Khan said: 'At this time of rising tensions, we all have a responsibility to pull together and reject hateful narratives, and ensure our towns and cities are safe and welcoming for everyone.\n \n'In London, our diversity is our greatest strength and we will always stand united against those spreading hate and division.'\n \n\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/SadiqKhan\/status\/1818930264363397511","headline":"Sadiq Khan vows to take action against those 'intent on violence'","author":{"name":"Tom Sanders"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21341076","datePublished":"2024-08-01T10:43:40+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T10:43:41+01:00","articleBody":"The defendant was brought into court at 10.21am, wearing a baggy grey tracksuit and black slippers.\n \nHe looked at the row of reporters sat behind the glass dock and smiled before he was asked to sit down.\n \nThe 17-year-old used his left hand to pull his sweatshirt over his face above his nose and kept his head low during the five-minute hearing, in which he did not speak.\n \nThe hearing dealt largely with administrative legal matters ahead of his appearance before another judge later on Thursday.\n \nNone of the families of either the victims or defendant were in court for the brief hearing.","headline":"Suspect 'smiled in court' as he is read charges","author":{"name":"Tom Sanders"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21340954","datePublished":"2024-08-01T10:30:53+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T14:17:44+01:00","articleBody":"A 17-year-old male has been remanded into youth detention accommodation after appearing at Liverpool Magistrates' Court.\n \nThe suspect has been charged with three counts of murder, 10 counts of attempted murder and possession of a bladed article following the attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport on Monday.\n \nHe will remain in custody and appear at Liverpool Crown Court later on Thursday.\n \nThe defendant came to court at about 9am in a prison van with a large police escort of vans and cars.\n \nAround 20 members of the press packed into court 3.6, a youth court, before District Judge James Hatton sitting at Liverpool Magistrates' Court.\n \nChief Constable of Merseyside Police Serena Kennedy said: 'Whilst these charges are a significant milestone within this investigation, this remains very much a live investigation and we continue to work with our partners from Lancashire Police and counter-terrorism police in the North West.'","headline":"Suspect remanded in youth custody","author":{"name":"Tom Sanders"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21340540","datePublished":"2024-08-01T09:44:58+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T15:06:10+01:00","articleBody":"The 17-year-old suspect has arrived at Liverpool City Magistrates Court where he will appear this morning charged with three counts of murder and 10 of attempted murder.\n \nThe boy, of Banks, Lancashire, who cannot ne named for legal reasons because of his age, also faces a charge of possessing a bladed article over the knife attack in Southport on Monday.\n \nA heavy police presence accompanied the van carrying him to court. \n \nIt comes after violent disorder broke out across the country following the attack.\n \n\n \n\n \n","headline":"Teenager charged with murders arrives at court","author":{"name":"Sam Corbishley"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21340520","datePublished":"2024-08-01T09:40:06+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T09:40:06+01:00","articleBody":"Former England and Liverpool footballer Steven Gerrard has donated \u00a310,000 to the victims of the stabbings at a holiday club in Southport.\n \nThe former Reds captain\u2019s donation to the Southport Dance Group Emergency Fund GoFundMe page follows another \u00a310,000 pledge by former Everton star Anthony Gordon, now of Newcastle United.\n \nThe Merseyside footballers\u2019 donations mean over \u00a369,000 has now been raised on the page, which was launched 'on behalf of preschool dance companies in the UK' and is pledged to go directly to families affected by Monday\u2019s attack.","headline":"Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard donates \u00a310,000 to Southport fundraiser","author":{"name":"Sam Corbishley"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21340481","datePublished":"2024-08-01T09:36:11+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T09:36:12+01:00","articleBody":"Social media companies have been urged to take action over misleading posts about the knife attack in Southport.\n \nViolence is said to have been fuelled by false claims online that the teenage suspect was an asylum seeker who had arrived in the UK by boat.\n \nIn fact, the suspect was born in Cardiff, where his parents moved from Rwanda.\n \nMore than 50 police officers were injured when rioters hijacked a vigil in Southport on Tuesday evening.\n \nSimilar scenes were replicated in London, Hartlepool and Manchester overnight while a demonstration in Aldershot saw a tense stand-off with riot police.\n \n\n \nGovernment officials are thought to have raised concerns with X and Meta, which owns Facebook, after the claims were able to be viewed millions of times despite no evidence backing them up, the Telegraph reports.\n \nSources told the newspaper officials want answers on what action is being taken to tackle the spread of disinformation and what the threshold is for either removing posts or flagging inaccurate ones.\n \n\u2018Officials have been speaking to the companies about what they are doing about these posts and providing evidence of what has been happening,\u2019 a source said.","headline":"Social media companies urged to take action over misleading posts","author":{"name":"Sam Corbishley"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21339970","datePublished":"2024-08-01T08:44:58+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T08:44:58+01:00","articleBody":"An Asian man was punched in the face in what appears to be a racially motivated attack during riots in Hartlepool last night.\n \nThe riots, which took place around the UK, are believed to be in response to a horrifying stabbing spree in Southport on Monday in which three young girls were murdered at a children\u2019s dance class.\n \nViolent scenes erupted in Hartlepool, Aldershot, London and Manchester last night, which saw riot police pelted with bricks, missiles and glass bottles during clashes with far-right protesters.\n \nIn Hartlepool, footage captured on social media shows an Asian man walking down the street as scenes of violence unfold around him when he is punched in the face by a white man in a baseball cap in an unprovoked assault.\n \n","headline":"Man punched in \u2018unprovoked racial attack\u2019 in Hartlepool disorder","author":{"name":"Sam Corbishley"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21339828","datePublished":"2024-08-01T08:29:38+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T15:06:07+01:00","articleBody":"The Prime Minister will host senior police leaders in Downing Street on Thursday afternoon in the wake of violent unrest in multiple parts of the country.\n \nHe is expected to remind the police that people 'exploit' the right to protest in order to 'sow hatred' or commit 'violent acts' should be met with 'the full force of the law'.\n \nSir Keir Starmer will also commit to working in partnership with police forces across the UK to stop 'mindless violence' following scenes of unrest in Southport, London, Hartlepool and elsewhere.\n \n","headline":"Prime Minister to meet with police chiefs over disorder","author":{"name":"Sam Corbishley"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21339393","datePublished":"2024-08-01T07:27:22+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T07:33:10+01:00","articleBody":"England footballer Anthony Gordon has reportedly donated \u00a310,000 to a fundraiser for the victims of the knife attack. \n \nThe 23-year-old left player from Liverpool gave the money to a GoFundMe page - the largest single donation the campaign has received, The Sun reports. \n \nAnother fundraiser for Alder Hey Children's Hospital on JustGiving has raised almost \u00a3330,000 for the families affected by the tragedy. \n \nThe victims of the knife rampage were attending a Taylor Swift-themed summer dance party at Hart Space Studios which eyewitnesses described as 'the biggest, horrific thing you could ever witness.'","headline":"England football star gives \u00a310,000 to Southport victims","author":{"name":"Noora Mykkanen"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21339302","datePublished":"2024-08-01T06:56:47+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T14:17:29+01:00","articleBody":"\n \nThe 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been charged with the murders of Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine. \n \nHe is also facing ten attempted murder charges, and he is due to appear at Liverpool Magistrates Court later today.","headline":"17-year-old charged with murder of three girls","author":{"name":"Noora Mykkanen"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21339226","datePublished":"2024-08-01T06:36:13+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-02T12:44:54+01:00","articleBody":"\n \nOver 100 people have been arrested in central London after further violence following the Southport stabbings. \n \nProtests broke out across the UK, including in Hartlepool, Manchester, Aldershot and Downing Street. \n \nHundreds of people had gathered opposite Downing Street at 7pm yesterday where they were only allowed to stay until 8.30pm under the police dispersal order. \n \nA police car was set on fire after a large group of people had gathered in Hartlepool's Murray Street area. \n \nThe protest at Downing Street was titled Enough is Enough as a large group of people clashed with the police, leading to more than 100 arrests. \n \n\n \nThe Met Police said: 'Over 100 people have been arrested for offences including violent disorder, assault on an emergency worker, and breach of protest conditions. Some officers suffered minor injuries.' \n \nProtesters threw beer cans and glass bottles at a line of officers in riot gear while flares were thrown onto the statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square. \n \nChants of 'we want our country back' and 'Oh Tommy Robinson' were heard, referring to the right-wing activist who is believed to have fled the UK before he was due in High Court. \n \nIn Manchester, protesters gathered outside the Holiday Inn which spilled into Oldham Road, with police tactical units called in to break up the demonstration, the MEN reports.","headline":"Riots spread across the UK after Southport attack","author":{"name":"Noora Mykkanen"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21338481","datePublished":"2024-07-31T23:01:28+01:00","dateModified":"2024-07-31T23:01:28+01:00","articleBody":"Cleveland Police have now confirmed four people have been arrested amid disorder in Hartlepool, and several officers have suffered minor injuries.\n \nChief Superintendent David Sutherland said: 'We currently have a high policing presence while officers respond to disorder that is taking place in Hartlepool following a protest that began this evening.\n \n'At this stage we believe the protest is in connection with the incident in Southport earlier this week.\n \n'Our officers are facing missiles, glass bottles and eggs being thrown at them and have made arrests as they remain in the area to protect the safety of those living in the community.\n \n'I want to urge members of the public to stay away from the area.'","headline":"Hartlepool police pelted with eggs and bottles","author":{"name":"katie-boyden"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21338420","datePublished":"2024-07-31T22:41:26+01:00","dateModified":"2024-07-31T22:41:27+01:00","articleBody":"A man has been charged with possession of an offensive weapon.\n \nHe was detained in Eastbank Street at around 6.55pm on Tuesday and a knife was recovered.\n \nJordan Davies, 32, of Portland Street, Southport, has been charged with possession of a knife, blade or sharp-pointed article in a public place.\n \nHe will appear at Wirral Adult Remand Court on Thursday.","headline":"Man charged with possession of an offensive weapon in Stockport on Tuesday","author":{"name":"katie-boyden"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21338396","datePublished":"2024-07-31T22:29:04+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T09:56:54+01:00","articleBody":"\n \nMerseyside Police has arrested a fifth person in connection with the Southport riots on Tuesday night.\n \nOfficers were called to a domestic incident earlier today, where a man reportedly made threats to a male family member.\n \nThe suspect was taken to hospital to treat a head injury - and police then recognised the man from video of the disorder on Tuesday.\n \nThe man is alleged to have thrown rocks at officers and hit a police van. He's believed to have sustained his head injury during the disorder.\n \nThe suspect, aged 39 and from Southport, was also alleged to have racially abused another patient while in hospital.\n \nHe was arrested on suspicion of violent disorder, threats to kill and a racially aggravated public order offence. \n \nHe was taken into custody to be interviewed and has now been conditionally bailed.\n \nAssistant Chief Constable Alex Goss said: 'Our work to identify all those responsible for the despicable violence and aggression seen on the streets of Southport on Tuesday continues.\n \n'We have been inundated with images and footage from members of the public who were outraged at the destruction carried out.\n \n'The individuals involved in the disorder had no regard for the families and friends of those who so tragically lost their lives, and a community in grief.\n \n'It has been heartening today to see the reaction of the whole community, who have pulled together to clean the streets, rebuild walls and re-glaze broken windows.'","headline":"Fifth person arrested over Southport riots after he was recognised from video","author":{"name":"katie-boyden"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21338375","datePublished":"2024-07-31T22:22:03+01:00","dateModified":"2024-07-31T22:22:03+01:00","articleBody":"\n \nA spokesperson for Hartlepool Police said: 'There remains a policing presence in the Murray Street area while officers deal with disorder after responding to a protest - several arrests have already been made.\n \n'The road is still closed and people are advised to avoid the area.'\n \nThe town's MP, Jonathan Brash, said: 'I'm deeply concerned about the situation that is developing in Hartlepool this evening.\n \n'I will be meeting with police to discuss the response to this incident and would urge calm to allow our emergency services to do their job.\n \n'These events do not represent what Hartlepool is or the values that our people hold. Violence is never the answer.'","headline":"'Several' people arrested in Hartlepool","author":{"name":"katie-boyden"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21338291","datePublished":"2024-07-31T22:04:31+01:00","dateModified":"2024-07-31T22:04:32+01:00","articleBody":"Scenes of violence where protesters set vans alight and attacked a mosque have led to tougher police powers being introduced in Southport.\n \nExtra police will patrol the area as part of a Section 60 Order in place there until Thursday, having been introduced at 5pm today.\n \nThis gives police more powers to stop and search people in an effort to reduce violence.\n \nCommunity Inspector Doug Chadwick said: 'The scenes we saw last night in Southport were disgraceful, and these extra powers to stop and search people suspected of carrying weapons or planning any criminality are just one tool at our disposal as we seek to keep the public safe.\n \n'We are asking for the help of a community we know was left shocked and disappointed by the actions of those who engaged in disorder last night.\n \n'You can be our eyes and ears and tell us what you have seen so that we can take positive action.\n \n'People living in Southport can expect to see a continued and visible police presence.\n \n'I hope their continued presence is reassuring, and I would ask anyone with concerns to speak to our officers.'","headline":"Increased stop and search powers for police in Southport","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21338224","datePublished":"2024-07-31T21:56:09+01:00","dateModified":"2024-07-31T22:08:31+01:00","articleBody":"\n \nThere are 'full on riots' in Hartlepool, County Durham, where protesters have thrown bricks at police.\n \nOfficers wielding riot shields have charged crowds in an attempt to clear them from the streets.\n \nAn eyewitness said: 'There's a full on riot at the other end of the street. All the roads over there are blocked. They're throwing bricks.'\n \nOne resident said: 'I've never seen anything like it in my life.'\n \nIt's not clear whether this is linked with the stabbings in Southport, in which four young girls died, or with the protest in London tonight.\n \n\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/tburgessjourno\/status\/1818743799746847159","headline":"Violence spreads to Hartlepool","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21338114","datePublished":"2024-07-31T21:26:33+01:00","dateModified":"2024-07-31T21:28:51+01:00","articleBody":"A line of officers are slowly marching protesters towards Trafalgar Square in an attempt to disperse the crowd.\n \nThe static was supposed to end at 8.30pm, according to restrictions imposed by the Met Police.\n \nSome protesters have been wrestled to the ground and led away in handcuffs after they confronted riot police.\n \n\n \n","headline":"Protesters tackled to ground as police try to clear London protest","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21337996","datePublished":"2024-07-31T21:01:16+01:00","dateModified":"2024-07-31T21:01:16+01:00","articleBody":"Jonathan Brown has had something of a fall from grace - from policing the streets to cackling as his former colleagues' van was set on fire.\n \nAll it took was getting caught buying cocaine outside a pub while he was looking after his three-year-old daughter, leading to his resignation last year.\n \nBrown could be seen laughing and smiling as the violence and flames broke out during a live stream of the riot in Southport on Tuesday night, the Liverpool Echo reported.\n \nHe quit Merseyside Police after being caught by drugs in August 2022, for which has was charged and fined \u00a3475 after admitting possession of a Class A drug.\n \nChief Constable Serena Kennedy\u00a0concluded he would have been sacked for gross misconduct if he hadn't resigned, meaning he's been barred from holding any policing job in the future.","headline":"Ex-police officer filmed laughing as van set on fire in Southport","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21337952","datePublished":"2024-07-31T20:51:15+01:00","dateModified":"2024-07-31T20:51:15+01:00","articleBody":"Martin Daubney was seen being handcuffed by police before he was released a short time later.\n \nHe appears to say, 'I'm just trying to do my job, I have no problem with the police', after his arms are released from behind his back.\n \nThe former magazine editor briefly served as a Member of the European Parliament for Nigel Farage's Brexit Party.\n \nDaubney later became deputy leader of Laurence Fox's Reclaim Party. He now works as a presenter on GB News.","headline":"GB News presenter handcuffed during protest near Downing Street","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21337876","datePublished":"2024-07-31T20:22:45+01:00","dateModified":"2024-07-31T20:22:46+01:00","articleBody":"\n \nFar-right protests often draw accusations of being an excuse for a boozy day out.\n \nThat accusation was certainly levelled at the rioters in Southport last night.\n \nIn London, demonstrators have been pictured with their fists wrapped firmly around cans of beer.\n \nOne protester had a whole armful of Stella Artois.\n \n","headline":"Fistfuls of beer on display at London protest","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21337848","datePublished":"2024-07-31T20:11:48+01:00","dateModified":"2024-07-31T20:24:25+01:00","articleBody":"\n \nA protester has been pictured biting the hand of a police officer during the demonstration near Downing Street.\n \nThe man appears to have the gloved thumb of an officer in his mouth. They are separated by a metal barrier.\n \nPolice have now detained more than 12 protesters, with many led away in handcuffs.","headline":"Protester bites police officer's hand as 12 arrested","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21337804","datePublished":"2024-07-31T19:58:46+01:00","dateModified":"2024-07-31T22:06:30+01:00","articleBody":"At least one man has been detained during the protest in Whitehall.\n \nPolice wrestled a man wearing a balaclava off the road and onto the pavement.\n \n","headline":"One man detained during Southport stabbings protest in London","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21337743","datePublished":"2024-07-31T19:49:24+01:00","dateModified":"2024-07-31T19:54:12+01:00","articleBody":"\n \n\n \n\n \nDemonstrators gathered outside Downing Street for what they claimed was a protest over the stabbings in Southport.\n \nAlthough some protesters can be heard talking about knife crime getting out of control, most of the slogans are of a different nature.\n \n'Stop the boats', says one banner unfurled at the protest, hinting out misinformation spread online claiming the suspect, from Cardiff, is an asylum seeker who arrived by boat last year.\n \nProtesters can be heard chanting the name of former EDL leader Tommy Robinson, along with chants of 'England til' I die' and 'terrorists out of our country'.\n \nSome have thrown beer cans and glass bottles at riot police, and flares at a statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square.\n \nOfficers could earlier be heard trying to herd protesters off the road and into a spot designated for them until 8.30pm.\n \nBut protesters have decided to march down the road instead.","headline":"Far-right protest over Southport stabbings turns violent in London","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21337612","datePublished":"2024-07-31T19:15:55+01:00","dateModified":"2024-07-31T19:16:31+01:00","articleBody":"Newcastle United winger Anthony Gordon, who played with England at the Euros this year, has donated \u00a310,000 to a GoFundMe campaign this evening.\n \nGordon, who is originally from Liverpool, is now the top donor to the fundraiser launched to support the families of victims in Monday's stabbing.\n \nMore than \u00a347,000 have so far been raised, with a target of \u00a350,000.","headline":"England footballer Anthony Gordon donates \u00a310,000 to GoFundMe for victims' families","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21337578","datePublished":"2024-07-31T19:03:18+01:00","dateModified":"2024-07-31T19:03:41+01:00","articleBody":"Neighbours of the alleged Southport stabbing suspect saw a man 'pacing' outside a house before he got into a taxi around 11.30am on Monday.\n \nResidents told the Liverpool Echo they'd seen the taxi pull up when they watched their Ring doorbell footage.\n \nThe stabbing at The Hart Space happened shortly before midday.","headline":"'Pacing' man picked up by taxi 20 minutes before stabbing","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21337329","datePublished":"2024-07-31T18:01:01+01:00","dateModified":"2024-07-31T18:01:02+01:00","articleBody":"The local council has assured people that 'there is no disruption or disorder' in Southport so far this afternoon.\n \nBut Merseyside Police is on high alert due to a risk of repeat violence in Southport after last night's riot.\n \nChief Constable Serena Kennedy said: 'I am absolutely concerned about repeats, there is that misinformation out there on social media, but please be reassured we are absolutely planning for that, please be reassured that we are planning for what might take place this evening and over the weekend.\n \n'We were really supported by colleagues from other forces last night and that support is available to us again.'\n \n\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/seftoncouncil\/status\/1818658232321048952","headline":"Police prepared for possibility of another night of violence as misinformation spreads","author":{"name":"danny-rigg"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21336713","datePublished":"2024-07-31T16:37:11+01:00","dateModified":"2024-07-31T16:37:11+01:00","articleBody":"Four men have now been arrested after a far-right rioters raged on the streets of Southport last night.\n \nMerseyside Police said four men have been arrested and taken into custody after the far-right\u00a0English Defence League\u00a0hijacked a vigil being held for the stabbing victims.\n \nThey added the disorder began at around 7.45pm and the crowd left by about midnight.\n \nA total of four men have been arrested and taken into custody.\n \nA 31-year-old man from St Helens was arrested on suspicion of Violent Disorder\n \nA 31-year-old man from West Derby, Liverpool was arrested on suspicion of Violent Disorder\n \nA 39-year-old man from Southport was arrested on suspicion of Violent Disorder\n \nA 32-year-old man from Manchester with a probation address in Southport was arrested on suspicion of Affray and Possession of a bladed article\n \nPolice said the rioters destroyed garden walls to use the bricks as missiles to attack officers and randomly set cars belonging to the public on fire. \n \nThey also threw bricks at the local Mosque, damaged a local convenience shop, and set wheelie bins on fire.\n \nThree police dogs were also injured. Police Dog Zoe sustained a cuts to her leg, has been stitched and is now resting. Police Dog Ike is recovering after getting cuts to his mouth and swelling to his front leg. \n \n Police Dog Quga suffered burns to her back leg. A fourth dog, Police Dog Repo, was spared injury after his handler kicked petrol away from him.","headline":"Four arrests after night of violent disorder","author":{"name":"isobel-frodsham-met"}},{"@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/","url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/29\/major-incident-in-southport-after-stabbing-21318313\/#entry-21336711","datePublished":"2024-07-31T16:36:54+01:00","dateModified":"2024-08-01T08:45:55+01:00","articleBody":"Jonathan Hayes, who runs a business next door to the studio where the knife attack took place, has undergone major surgery after being stabbed in the leg while trying to stop it.\n \nAsked about press reports branding him a hero, he said: \u2018Some would say confronting a guy wielding a hunting knife is utter madness.\u2019\n \nMr Hayes, a director at Calculus Legal Costs Limited, ran into the studio after hearing the children screaming as they were attacked.\n \nThree were killed, while he and yoga teacher Leanne Lucas were seriously hurt when the knifeman turned his blade on them for trying to intervene.\n \nMr Hayes told the broadcaster he expects to be in hospital for some time as he still cannot walk.\n \nHe said he has been \u2018overwhelmed by the number of well wishes I have received\u2019 and wanted to thank everyone who has reached out to him.\n \n","headline":"Hero businessman \u2018overwhelmed\u2019 by well wishes","author":{"name":"Sam Corbishley"}}],"author":{"name":"jasper-king"},"name":"Southport stabbing: Police building on fire and officers in hospital"}

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Police building set on fire and officers in hospital as far-right riot in Sunderland

Police building set on fire and officers in hospital as far-right riot in Sunderland

Police building set on fire and officers in hospital as far-right riot in Sunderland

Police building set on fire and officers in hospital as far-right riot in Sunderland

Police building set on fire and officers in hospital as far-right riot in Sunderland