The number of people arrested, charged and convicted is changing rapidly, but late on Tuesday afternoon the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) announced that 1,024 people have been arrested so farof which 575 charges were brought. In turn, according to media calculations, several dozen people have already been sentenced – usually to prison terms ranging from a dozen or so months to three years.
According to these figures and the PA agency's calculations, around 10 percent of all those accused so far are minors. What is particularly noteworthy is very young age of some of them.
UK: Children Riot
On Monday Two twelve-year-olds appeared in court. One of them took part in a riot in Southport on July 30, during which – according to CCTV footage – he threw an unidentified object at police officers.
The boy, who cannot be named because he is a minor, pleaded guilty at Liverpool Youth Tribunal to a charge of rioting involving violence. His sentence will be announced on September 17.
A second 12-year-old pleaded guilty at Manchester Magistrates' Court on Monday to two counts of rioting with violence, relating to two separate incidents.
One of them took place on July 31, when he kicked a bus and handed a stone to someone who threw it at a hotel where asylum seekers were staying. Three days later, he kicked the window of an e-cigarette shop and threw something at a police van. His sentence will be announced on September 2.
Riots in the UK. Wave of protests after Southport attack
In turn, on Tuesday A 13-year-old girl appeared in courtwho actively took part in a riot outside a hotel for asylum seekers in Aldershot, south-east England, kicking and punching the front door.
The girl, who was accompanied by her parents to Basingstoke Magistrates' Court, pleaded guilty to a charge of rioting involving violence. The sentence will be announced on September 30.The prosecutor said during the trial that if she were an adult, he would have sought a two-year prison sentence.
Riots in Great Britain erupted almost two weeks ago after the stabbing of three young girls in Southport near Liverpool. The accused in this case is Axel Rudakubana, who was born in Wales but has Rwandan roots, and was not yet 18 at the time of the murder.
The riots that lasted for over a week were largely of a civil nature. anti-immigrant and anti-Muslimwhich was related to false information spread on social media that the perpetrator was a Muslim asylum seeker.