Girl, 13, admits unlawful violence during riot outside migrant hotel

Thank you for reading our coverage today. We are now finishing up but will be providing you rolling coverage again tomorrow.

Here is a highlight of what has happened today:

A 13-year-old girl pleaded guilty to using or threatening unlawful violence following a far-right riot outside a hotel in Aldershot.

Meanwhile a man who looted cosmetics chain Lush during riots in Hull pleaded guilty to violent disorder, burglary and racially aggravated criminal damage.

A judge hit out at an accused rioter who missed his court appearance after flying out to Dubai on holiday.

A 19-year-old man was jailed for three years after he admitted throwing bricks and lighted arrows at police protecting a hotel housing asylum seekers.

And Tory hopeful Tom Tugendhat said Elon Musk’s claim that civil war was inevitable amid the disorder in parts of the UK was ‘delusional’ and ‘simply false’.

A mum threw liquid at police officers during a far-right riot outside a hotel housing asylum seekers while her baby sat in a pushchair alongside her.

Nevey Smith, 21, admitted violent disorder during a disturbance outside the hotel in Newton Heath, Manchester, on July 31 and could be seen crying in court.

Manchester Magistrates Court heard Smith was taking her child to her grandmother’s when she saw a family member outside the hotel.

Smith threw a liquid from a bottle towards the police officers after ‘losing her temper’.

District Judge Joanne Hirst granted her bail and said: ‘I am prepared to give you one opportunity. You put your own child at risk.’

The grandma of a 12-year-old rioter who admitted joining two mob rampages through Manchester revealed the family can no longer control him.

Talking to MailOnline, she said the boy used to live with her but then left after he clashed with her disabled son and wrecked her home.

She said he went missing for a week before getting involved in the rioting.

The grandma also revealed that the boy’s dad is in jail.

She said: ‘I work with young people and if I can help out, I will do. But I just can’t help him anymore. I’ve done my nanna bit.

‘I think he likes the excitement. He’s seen a lot of violence in his life, sadly. His dad is serving a long prison sentence. His mother can’t control him.

‘It’s incredibly sad. He’s a lovely little boy when on his own. You’d think he’d actually listen to what you try to tell him but it goes in one ear and out the other.’

The National Police Chiefs’ Council says that police officers up and down Britain have arrested more than 1,000 people.

Or to be exact, 1,024 people, the national policing body said. With 575 charged so far.

‘We told you justice would be swift and we wouldn’t tolerate this type of criminality,’ the council said in a post on X this evening.

Three men have been jailed today for a combined total of seven years and eight months for violent disorder in Merseyside.

Footage shows one of these men, Philip Prescott, throwing missiles at officers, including bricks.

Philip Prescott, 38, was sentenced to two years and four months after pleading guilty to violent disorder in Southport.

David Frank Hill, 38, was sentenced to two years after pleading guilty to violent disorder in Liverpool city centre.

Gareth Metcalfe, 44, was sentenced to three years and four months after pleading guilty to violent disorder in Southport.

Prescott threw missiles at officers, including a brick from a damaged garden wall. He was arrested six days later after local policing officers saw him and recognised him.

Hill was involved with damaging a police car and taking part in disorder.

A man who encouraged people on Facebook to commit an arson attack on a hotel housing asylum seekers has been jailed for 20 months.

John England, 45, shared an image on August 7 of people setting fire to a hotel saying he was ‘so proud of these great English men’.

He also wrote the same ‘needs to happen’ to a hotel in his hometown.

England pleaded guilty at Nottingham Crown Court to using threatening, abusive or insulting words to stir up racial hatred.

His posts also included offensive references to the Grenfell Tower disaster and Islam.

Detective Chief Inspector Nick Hall said: ‘England’s remarks were not a dark attempt at humour, nor were they a one-off aberration.

‘At a time when many people in our communities were experiencing fear and anxiety, he directly challenged other members of the public to set fire to a building with people inside.’

A 16-year-old boy appeared in court and pleaded guilty to violent disorder in Bolton which happened on August 4.

The boy cannot be named due to legal reasons.

He was bailed and will be sentenced on September 17.

A woman appeared in court and denied buying eggs for some far-right rioters to throw at police.

Barbara Barker, 52, pleaded not guilty to violent disorder at Manchester Magistrates’ Court.

Prosecutor Suzanne Ludlow alleged Barker was a ‘willing participant in the disorder’ and ‘aided and abetted the riots’ by buying the eggs and also water from a nearby shop

Defending Barker, John Black said she went to the area because she was ‘nosey’ and was not present when ‘violence occurred’.

He said she had ‘no reason’ to believe the eggs she purchased would be ‘used in any unlawful purpose’.

Barker was remanded into custody and is due to appear in court on September 3.

A 30-year-old man has been jailed after he brandished a stick at some anti-racism protesters in Sheffield.

Curtis Coulson was caught on CCTV doing it and he has been jailed for four-and-a-half months.

The judge Judge Jeremy Richardson KC told Coulson that his actions were ‘outrageous’.

In the CCTV footage he can be seen waving a stick in front of one woman who appeared to be filming him outside Sheffield City Hall.

Sentencing for a man who looted cosmetics chain Lush during riots in Hull has been adjourned after claims he asked a prison probation officer ‘if he wanted his autograph’.

John Honey helped attack a car with three Romanian men in, targeted a garage leaving nine vehicles damaged and pushed bins at police lines during the disorder on August 3.

The 25-year-old ‘played a prominent role’ in the 12 hours of violence and unrest that gripped the city, prosecutors said.

Honey pleaded guilty to violent disorder and three charges of burglary at Lush, the O2 store and Shoezone.

He also admitted racially aggravated criminal damage of a BMW, and to damaging nine other cars during an attack on a garage.

Judge John Thackray KC, the Recorder of Hull, said he had received a letter from a member of staff at HMP Hull who claimed they were conducting an assessment with Honey and that he had asked ‘if I wanted his autograph as he is famous and is all over social media’.

They said he was an ‘over-confident individual’ who ‘presented with no remorse’.

The court heard Honey disputed the probation officer’s claims and wanted to be sentenced on the basis that he was ‘genuinely remorseful’.

The case was adjourned until Friday for further statements to be taken.

A one-legged rioter has been jailed for his role in disorder in Plymouth.

John Cann, 51, pleaded guilty to violent disorder in relation to disturbances during a protest on August 5.

The city’s magistrates’ court heard yesterday how Cann was ‘seen to be on a bike’ in police footage taken on Royal Parade.

Claire Tresidder, prosecuting, said the ‘bike’ was actually a form of mobility scooter as Cann has a prosthetic lower right leg which is emblazoned with a St George’s Cross pattern.

Cann, who appeared in the dock flanked by two security officers replied ‘Oh yeah, I’m guilty’ before putting his hands up in the air when asked to offer a plea to the charge of violent disorder.

Ms Tresidder said Cann was seen to pick up items from the floor and throw them in the direction of the counter-protestors.

Other police footage showed Cann throwing a firework which landed on the counter-protestors’ side and run from where it landed.

The court was told that Cann had previous convictions, the most recent being possession of an offensive weapon in 2019.

District Judge Stuart Smith said Cann had accepted his role in the ‘very significant’ disorder, adding ‘violent thuggery is not going to be tolerated’.

Cann was remanded into custody for a sentencing hearing at Plymouth Crown Court today where Judge Robert Linford jailed him for three years.

A man has denied stirring up racial hatred by posting a series of threatening messages on X.

Mark Heath, 45, is charged with publishing written material on the social media platform between July 22 and August 6 which was allegedly abusive and intended to stir up racial hatred.

Heath, of Oakham, Rutland, pleaded not guilty at Leicester Crown Court via a link from HMP Leicester.

Judge Timothy Spencer KC set a provisional trial date for October 21 at Leicester Crown Court or Loughborough Crown Court.

A woman has denied purchasing eggs and water for protesters to throw at police outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Manchester.

Barbara Barker, 52, of Manchester, pleaded not guilty to violent disorder at Manchester Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday afternoon.

Prosecutor Suzanne Ludlow alleged Barker was a ‘willing participant in the disorder’ and ‘aided and abetted the riots’ by buying eggs and water from a nearby shop for protesters on July 31.

Defending, John Black told the court Barker went to the area because she was ‘nosey’ and was not present when ‘violence occurred’.

Mr Black said Barker had ‘no reason’ to believe the eggs she purchased would be ‘used in any unlawful purpose’.

Barker was remanded into custody and will appear at Manchester Crown Court on September 3 for a plea and trial preparation hearing.

Tom Tugendhat said Elon Musk’s claim that civil war was inevitable amid the disorder in parts of the UK was ‘delusional’ and ‘simply false’.

The Tory leadership hopeful said people make different choices when it comes to engaging with social media when asked if politicians should rethink using X.

‘Frankly I found those comments delusional and simply false. The question as to how we operate on social media is a difficult one,’ he said.

Giving the example of TikTok, he said: ‘I refuse to be on TikTok because the algorithm is set by a foreign dictatorship. Others make different choices.’

A 30-year-old man has been jailed for four-and-a-half months at Sheffield Crown Court after he was caught on CCTV brandishing a stick at anti-racist demonstrators.

Footage shown to a judge showed masked Curtis Coulson, 30, waving a stick in front of one woman who appeared to be filming him outside Sheffield City Hall, on Sunday August 4, before others from the demonstration advanced towards him.

Coulson is already subject to a football banning order after he was convicted of throwing missiles at a match, and he told police he found the mask in his pocket after last wearing his jacket at a football match in Serbia.

The Recorder of Sheffield, Judge Jeremy Richardson KC, told the defendant: ‘This form of public disorder is outrageous.’

Coulson, of Sheffield, admitted affray at a previous hearing.

He sobbed when he appeared before magistrates last week but he showed no emotion when he appeared by videolink on Tuesday.

A 16-year-old boy has been convicted of ‘participating in riots’ in Bolton.

The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to violent disorder at Manchester Magistrates’ Court, sitting as a youth court, on Tuesday afternoon.

Prosecutor Suzanne Ludlow said the charge related to the boy ‘participating in riots’ in Bolton town centre on August 4.

District Judge Lucy Hogarth told the boy: ‘You were involved in an extremely serious incident where real harm was caused around the country by individual people involving themselves in what was happening.’

The boy was bailed and will be sentenced at Manchester Magistrates’ Court on September 17.

A 19-year-old man has been jailed for three years at Sheffield Crown Court after he admitted throwing bricks and lighted arrows at police protecting a hotel housing asylum seekers.

Father-of-one Drew Jarvis was filmed lighting an arrow with a lighter and throwing it at officers during the rioting outside the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers, Rotherham, on Sunday August 4, a judge heard.

Footage was shown in court, filmed from inside the hotel, of Jarvis throwing wooden planks at the building, wearing a hoodie and a mask.

When the Recorder of Sheffield, Judge Jeremy Richardson KC, asked ‘what possessed him to turn up’, Dale Harris, defending, said: ‘Probably stupidity.’

The court heard how Jarvis told police after his arrest that he went to the hotel because it was ‘just another opportunity to vote, to sort out the hotel, to sort out the people staying within it’.

Unemployed Jarvis, of no fixed abode, but originally from Barnsley, admitted violent disorder last week.

Following the conviction of the 13-year-old girl at Basingstoke Magistrates’ Court, Thomas Power, a senior crown prosecutor with CPS Wessex, said: ‘This alarming incident will have caused genuine fear amongst people who were being targeted by these thugs – and it is particularly distressing to learn that such a young girl participated in this violent disorder.

‘Large-scale public unrest is never acceptable and the Crown Prosecution Service will not hesitate to respond swiftly and robustly to uphold law and order.

‘We will continue working with our partners in policing and the wider criminal justice system to make sure those who bring violence and panic to our communities face the consequences of their actions.’

Several more people have been charged with violent disorder and other offences following riots around England, the Crown Prosecution Service said.

Wayne O’Rourke, 35, has been charged with publishing written material to stir up racial hate and will appear at Lincolnshire Magistrates’ Court.

Andrew Hook, 32, has been charged with violent disorder and will appear at Preston Magistrates’ Court.

Paul Thirwell, 42, has been charged with violent disorder and drugs offences, and will appear at Teesside Magistrates’ Court, while Michael Stevenson, 34, and Louis McGrother, 22, have both been charged with violent disorder and will appear at the same court.

Luke Sissons, 35, has been charged with violent disorder and will appear at Sheffield Magistrates’ Court.

In the south, the Crown Prosecution Service charged Steven Tiquin, 41, with violent disorder and he will appear at Basingstoke Magistrates’ Court.

Ian Vetier, 35, has been charged with violent disorder and will appear at Poole Magistrates’ Court.

Ian Thomas, 47, has been charged with assault by beating of an emergency worker and violent disorder, and will appear at Poole Magistrates’ Court.

Meanwhile, in County Durham, Abul Rahman, 47, and Abul Koveen, 33, have both been charged with violent disorder and will appear at Newton Aycliffe Magistrates’ Court.

Anthony Hobkirk, 34, has been charged with violent disorder and burglary, and will appear at Newcastle Magistrates’ Court.

A 52-year-old woman has been charged with violent disorder over the riots during the summer.

Barbara Barker will appear at Manchester City Magistrates’ Court over the incident.

Daniel Stewart, 28, has been charged with assault by beating and violent disorder, and will appear at Preston Magistrates’ Court.

Graham Doherty, 35, has been charged with violent disorder and will appear at Sheffield Magistrates’ Court.

A judge has hit out at an accused rioter who missed his court appearance after flying out to Dubai on holiday.

Perrie Fisher, 28, was due to appear in court after being charged with violent disorder on Friday.

However, he jetted off to the Middle East on Sunday for seven nights on a ‘pre-booked’ holiday, Basingstoke Magistrates’ Court heard today.

District Judge Tim Pattinson issued a warrant without bail upon his return to the UK.

Fisher is said to have been involved in violent disorder that broke out during a protest at a hotel housing asylum seekers in Aldershot on July 31.

The judge said: ‘To say these are serious matters is an understatement. They have attracted national attention at the very highest level. My view is it’s not acceptable for [Fisher] to fail to attend court.’

He therefore issued a warrant without bail for when Fisher lands on UK tarmac on Sunday.