A man who looted shops and vandalised 10 cars has appeared in court over the UK riots – with a 13-year-old also admitting offences today in a separate case.
John Honey, 25, pleaded guilty to three charges of burglary at Lush, the O2 store and Shoezone during riots in Hull on 3 August.
He also admitted to racially aggravated criminal damage of a BMW and damaging nine other cars.
It’s expected Honey will be sentenced at a court in Hull later today.
A 13-year-old girl also pleaded guilty on Tuesday to threatening unlawful violence outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Aldershot, Hampshire.
The teenager, who cannot be named due to her age, sat with her parents as she admitted the offence outside Potters International Hotel on 31 July.
She will be sentenced at Basingstoke Magistrates’ Court on 30 September.
Her conviction comes as analysis by the PA news agency shows at least 50 youths under the age of 18 have been charged in connection with the nationwide disorder.
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Prosecutors have been fast-tracking people through the courts following the week of violence that took place around the UK after the Southport stabbings.
Sentences as long as three years have been handed down, and yesterday two 12-year-olds became the youngest sentenced over the violence.
One of the boys was filmed throwing an object at a police van, as well as kicking the window of a vape shop and a passing bus, according to the Crown Prosecution Service.
Several people have already been jailed after posting messages on social media inciting violence, with others being processed for similar offences.
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Some 975 people have been arrested and 546 charged in relation to the disorder, the National Police Chiefs’ Council said on Monday.
However, the government has said it cannot guarantee some won’t be released after serving 40% of their sentence under a scheme to ease prison overcrowding that begins in September.
Protests and violence by far-right supporters appear to have died down for the moment.
Fears of more than 100 gatherings last Wednesday failed to materialise as large numbers of counter-protesters took to the streets.
