Boy, 15, first to be charged with rioting in UK unrest

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Boy, 15, first to be charged with rioting in *** unrest

A 15-year-old boy has become the first person to be charged with rioting following a wave of violent unrest that swept across the ******* Kingdom.

The teen, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, appeared at South Tyneside Youth Court on Thursday but his case was adjourned for two weeks.

He was charged following disorder in Sunderland in northern England on August 2, and had pleaded guilty to separate charges of violent disorder and burglary.

“This defendant is one of a number of individuals who we expect will be charged with riot,” chief crown prosecutor for northeast England Gale Gilchrist said.

Hundreds of people have been arrested and charged since riots erupted on July 30 after wrong information spread online that the suspect in a ****** ******* that ******* three children was a ******* asylum-seeker.

Protesters fuelled by anti-immigration activists attacked a mosque in the town of Southport, where the ****** were *******, and the ********* soon spread to more than a dozen cities and towns across the country.

Some of the worst unrest centred around hotels housing asylum-seekers, with protesters hurling bricks and storming some hotels and clashing with riot police.

Many have since been charged with violent disorder and sentenced but no one else had so far been charged with rioting, a more serious offence that carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.

Also on Thursday, a man was jailed for three years and two months in the city of Manchester for punching and kicking a ****** man in the face during disorder in the city.

Another man who threw bricks at police outside a hotel housing asylum-seekers was sentenced to two years and 10 months.

Last week, a 26-year-old man who used social media to encourage people to torch hotels that house asylum seekers was sentenced to more than three years in prison.

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