More than 700 arrested and 349 charged

[Pelican Press 0]

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

More than 700 arrested and 349 charged

data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==PA

Police face off with protesters at a Rotherham hotel housing asylum seekers on 4 August

Police have so far arrested 779 people in connection with the recent rioting across the ***, the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) has said.

Of those, 349 people have been charged, it added.

Rioters in England and northern Ireland clashed with police, looted shops and attacked hotels housing asylum seekers,

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

that the suspect in the fatal stabbing of three ****** in Southport on 29 July was a ******* asylum seeker.

********* had calmed by Wednesday, when

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

.

On Saturday, thousands of anti-racism protesters again marched in cities across the country, with at least one smaller anti-immigrant protest also gathering.

The NPCC said specialist officers have been tasked with pursuing suspected online offenders and so-called influencers, who they say are responsible for “spreading hate and inciting ********* on a large scale”.

Across the country, teams are investigating “hundreds of leads” they said.

The hundreds of arrests and charges for rioters in less than two weeks have been followed by swift sentencing and jail sentences of

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

.

Cases include a 16-year-old who

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

in Liverpool last weekend.

In greater Manchester, eight people were due in court after being charged with violent disorder on Friday. One was also charged with robbery. The defendants ranged in age from 13 to 46.

In Hull, six people appeared at court on Saturday in connection to disorder.

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

.

Seven people were also charged on Friday and Saturday after

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Aldershot on 31 July.

data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==Reuters

Protesters marched near Finsbury Park Mosque in London on Saturday

Thousands fill streets to welcome refugees

In response to recent *********, hundreds of people gathered to support immigrants in Cardiff, Birmingham, Norwich, Penzance, Southampton, Shrewsbury, Carlisle, Hastings, Cambridge and Devon on Saturday.

In Belfast,

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

that started at Writer’s Square. Some protesters waved signs that read ‘Ulster says no to racism’.

The organisers, ******* Against Racism, said the event was intended to be a “peaceful response to ******* ********* of recent days”.

“These are our streets, and we will not concede them to the ******* forces who want to divide us,” said the campaign group’s chair, Fiona Doran.

In London, around 2,500 people marched on Whitehall in support of refugees. The march started at the headquarters of political party Reform ***, whose leader Nigel Farage

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

. Protesters held signs that read “refugees welcome” and “stop the far right”.

Hundreds of anti-racism protesters also

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

while a small number of anti-immigrant protesters amassed in the nearby Bigg Market area.

Newcastle police

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

, including for possession of an offensive *******, possession of a Class B ***** and ******** to comply with some of the orders in place. None of the arrests were for disorder or violent offences.

Police take measures to prevent *********

Police were braced for more possible unrest over the weekend given planned protests.

Liverpool police put in place a dispersal order starting at 16:00 on Saturday following “incidents of disorder”. The order allows police to direct people suspected of or involved in ********* activity to leave an area for 48 hours and arrest them if they return.

Police had already put in place a Section 60 order, which gives officers greater powers to stop and search individuals to prevent *********, from 11:00 to 23:00.

“Both orders are extra tools at our disposal to help keep the public safe, and highly visible police patrols will enforce them in the next 48 hours,” neighbourhood policing inspector Chris Taylor said.

Families still mourn in Southport data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==PA

The King family pictured in a photo released by Merseyside Police

As protests continue, families still mourn in Southport, where Bebe King, six, lsie Dot Stancome, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguair, nine, were ******* at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.

On Saturday, Bebe’s parents

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

.

They praised her older sister, who had witnessed the *******, and had “shown such incredible strength and courage” since that day.

Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, an 18-year-old born in Cardiff to Rwandan parents, has

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

with the three ******’ murders and also the attempted ******* of eight other children and two adults.

Additional reporting by Lyndsey Telford and Eimear Flanagan in Belfast, Mark McAlindon in Newcastle, Jen Sugden in Liverpool, Gavin Thomas in Cardiff, and Daniel De Simone and Tom Symonds in London, and Jonny Humphries and Monica Rimmer from North West

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

#arrested #charged

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up