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Police set up a cinema van so shoppers can 'shop a looter' as number of rioters arrested breaks 1,600
Birmingham police have come up with a way of tracking down those who wreaked havoc on their city - by setting up a 'cinema van' so shoppers can identify the brawling looters.

The vehicle has a large screen strapped to it and is broadcasting images of those caught in the widespread looting.

It has parked in the city centre so as many people as possible will be able to watch the rolling footage and hopefully offer names of those wanted in connection with the mass rioting.

This came as the Government announced there have now been 1,600 arrests and 796 people have appeared in court charged in connection with the riots.

 

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the young mother who was filmed calmly trying on a pair of trainers she had apparently just looted from a sports shop in Tottenham was remanded in custody.

Shereka Leigh, 22, was warned she could be jailed for more than a year after police discovered the bins outside her council flat were stuffed with empty electronics boxes.

 

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Privilege: Laura Johnson, left, and friend in a photo posted on Facebook last year

Millionaire's daughter Laura Johnson, 19, was charged with stealing £5,000-worth of electronic goods, including a Toshiba TV, Goodmans TV, microwave and mobile phones.

The goods were allegedly found in a car being driven by Miss Johnson after a branch of Comet in Charlton, south-east London, was raided.

Bexleyheath magistrates heard that a 'public order kit' of balaclava, gloves and a bandana was also found in the car.

Miss Johnson attended St Olave's Grammar School in Orpington, Kent, the fourth best performing state school in the country, after transferring from its sister school Newstead Wood.

She achieved A*s in French, English literature, classical civilisation and geography A-levels, and is now studying English and Italian at Exeter University.

Her parents, Robert and Lindsay Johnson, live in a large detached farmhouse in Orpington. It has extensive grounds and a tennis court. They sold their previous house, near Greenwich, for £930,000 in 2006.

Miss Johnson's parents, who supported her in court, run Avongate, a direct marketing company.

Her father is a businessman with directorships in several companies. He was a director in a company that took over the Daily Sport and Sunday Sport newspapers in 2007.

 

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THE ASPIRING MUSICIAN:

Stefan Hoyle was clutching a looted violin when he was arrested in the aftermath of riots in Manchester.

Smelling strongly of drink, the aspiring musician quipped: ‘I’ve always wanted to learn to play the violin.’ His parents wept in the dock as district judge Alan Berg told the 19-year-old it was an ‘absolute tragedy’ that he had thrown away his prospects in this way.

Hoyle, of Manchester, was arrested at 3am on Wednesday when police encircled a group of youths and saw him clutching the violin, thought to be from a music shop which had earlier been looted.

He tried to run away as police arrested a girl, but the court heard he was chased and caught, telling officers: ‘I can understand why people riot, you really are fascist ********.’

Hoyle had never been in trouble before and is on Jobseekers’ Allowance, the court heard.

Sentencing him to four months in a young offenders’ institution for theft, Judge Berg told Hoyle he had brought ‘shame and disgrace’ on his family. But he told the shamefaced teenager: ‘Nobody forced you to get drunk and pick up the

 

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THE SOCIAL WORKER STUDENT:

University graduate Natasha Reid, 24, came from a comfortable family home and studied at university to achieve her dream of becoming a social worker.

But her career hopes are now in jeopardy after she stole a £300 JVC television from a battered Comet store on her way home.

You young woman had been eating at a McDonalds fast-food chain when she became involved in the opportunistic looting.

Reid, from Edmonton, north London, yesterday pleaded guilty at Westminster Magistrates Court to theft and entering with intent to steal.

The young woman told the court that she was so overcome with guilt after stealing the TV on Saturday evening that she handed herself in to the police the next day. They promptly arrested her.

Reid's mother, Pamela, said that her daughter was baffled by her criminal behaviour as she already has a 27-inch TV in her bedroom.

'She didn't want a TV. She doesn't even know why she took it. She doesn't need a telly,' the girl's mother told the Times.

Pamela said that her daughter had cancelled her holiday which was due to begin to tomorrow.

She has been spending the last week sobbing in her bedroom as she comes to terms with the effect that a conviction will have on the hopes of her future career.

'She's not eaten this morning. She hasn't slept since Sunday night. She's shaking. She was bawling her eyes out,' Reid's mother added.

Miss Reid was too upset to speak and was being comforted in her room by her father. She will be sentenced next month.

 

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UK judge throw the book on the rioter

THE COLLEGE STUDENT

Nicholas Robinson, 23, was jailed for six months for looting a £3.50 case of water from Lidl.

The college student was walking back from his girlfriends house in Brixton in the early hours of Monday morning when he saw the superstore on Acre Lane being looted.

He took the opportunity to go in and help himself to a case of water because he was 'thirsty'.
But when the police came in, at around 2.40am, he discarded the bottles and attempted to flee the scene.

He was caught and arrested by officers at the scene. Wearing a black leather jacket, the electrical engineering student, looked shocked as he was jailed by District Judge Alan Baldwin at Camberwell Magistrates Court yesterday.

Robinson, from south London, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a charge of burglary of a place other than other than a dwelling (theft).

There were gasps from the public gallery as the judge handed down the maximum penalty he could to Robinson, who has no previous convictions, for his part in the 'chaos'.

District Judge Baldwin said: 'The burglary of commercial premises in circumstances such as this, where substantial and serious public disorder is or has taken place is commonly known as looting.'

 

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Young and attractive, they hardly conform to the identikit image of the violent looter.

But the 22-year-old model and two teenage girls pictured here were among those arrested in the riots.

The model, Shonola Smith, wept yesterday as she was jailed for six months for looting an Argos store in Croydon.
She was arrested with her sister Alicia and their 22-year-old friend Donness Bissessar when police stormed the building on Monday night.

When Alicia Smith was arrested she was carrying ten packs of chewing gum that she had stolen from a nearby Kwik Stop convenience store on the same day. She admitted theft.

All three, who had no previous convictions, received the same sentence after pleading guilty at Croydon magistrates’ court to entering the store with intent to steal. They broke down in tears as they were led to the cells.

District Judge Robert Hunter said: ‘The tragedy is that you are all of previous good character, each of you well educated.

'However, I can’t ignore the context in which these offences were committed. You have played your part in a wider act where devastation was caused to businesses and local residents.

'In my view, although I’m retaining jurisdiction, the matter is so serious that only a custodial sentence will suffice. That, I hope, will serve as a deterrent to others.'

Clad in identical prison issue clothes, all looked downcast in the dock as they exchanged glances with their parents in the public gallery.

Their lawyer told the court: 'I was taken by surprise. Talking to them and recently talking to their families, they come across as perfectly ordinary, reasonable, dare I say it civilised young wo'Their parents have found it really very hard to fathom what’s going on. They have accepted their guilt, there’s no doubt that they are remorseful.

'They all work. If it all kicked off again tonight I don’t for one second think you would find these ladies anywhere near.'men

 

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A young para in court for trying to sell looted £1,900 guitar

A Paratrooper who fought in Afghanistan faced court yesterday accused of stealing a £1,900 guitar during the riots.

The serving soldier was among the mobs which trashed shops in Manchester on Tuesday – his 20th birthday.

Liam Bretherton is accused of stealing the electric guitar and then trying to sell it on to a music shop near his home in Leigh.

A cross-country champion, he serves with 7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery based in Colchester, Essex.

Manchester magistrates were told he had been prepared to admit handling stolen goods but, when this was altered to the more serious charge of burglary, he pleaded not guilty.

He claimed he had bought the Gibson guitar from a looter for £20 but tried to sell it after realising it was a left-handed model.

Bretherton’s distraught father Alan yelled: ‘He’s been a good lad all his life, he’d never been any trouble to us’ while his mother Eileen sobbed.

District Judge Khalid Qureshi remanded him in custody for a week, telling him: ‘I find it hard to believe that someone with an interest in guitars just gravitated to a music store where a crime was being committed and ended up with a left-handed guitar by mistake.’

Uni students jailed for stealing goods worth £4,500

Three university students have each been jailed for a year for looting £4,500 of electrical equipment and designer gear.

They claimed they had found the bag of laptops, phones and men’s clothes in Croydon during the violence.

Akintunde Amosu and Xavier Techie-Afful, both 19, and the latter’s brother, Javier Nicholas Techie-Afful, 18, all admitted two counts of receiving and handling stolen goods in the early hours of Tuesday, August 9.

They looked stunned as District Judge Tan Ikram jailed them at Camberwell Green magistrates’ court.

He said: ‘I can draw little distinction between those who stole and burgled, those who actually attacked premises and those who helped themselves in the frenzy that followed in the streets.’

 

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THE Polish mum who had to leap for her life after rioters torched her home said last night: "England has become a sick society."

Speaking for the first time to The Sun, Monika Konczyk, 32, said she came to London to seek a better life - but was nearly killed by thugs in a nightmare riot blaze.


The hard-working Polish mum said she expected a "wonderful" fresh start when she arrived here five months ago.

Instead she found herself at the mercy of rampaging arsonists and looters as mayhem swept across London on Monday.

The image of Monika leaping from her flat against a backdrop of flames filled The Sun's Page One - and was beamed round the world to Britain's shame.

Poundland shop assistant Monika said: "I came to England because I thought it is a great country full of kind and gentle people.

"I thought London was a civilised society full of gentlemen and ladies - but it is not like that. England has become a sick society.

"I found myself jumping for my life after being attacked by thugs and thieves. They set fire to my building without any thought for anyone's safety.

"They were happy for me to die. They were like animals - greedy, selfish animals who thought only of themselves."

Desperate Monika had screamed "I'm going to die here" as a wall of flame and red-hot cinders swept ever closer to her flat in Croydon, South London.

Her terrifying 45-minute ordeal ended only when she jumped from her first-floor window into the arms of riot cops 16ft below.


In an exclusive interview with The Sun, Monika said of the rioters: "I am shocked to find people behaving like this in England.

"It is not what I expected of the English. I have never seen anything like this in Poland.

"Polish people are hard-working and respectable. They believe in working for a living, not stealing from others.

"If you want nice clothes or a new TV, you don't smash shop windows and loot them - you work to pay for them.

"My life in Poland was very hard, I worked very long hours for very little money.

"We are making sacrifices to come here so we can support ourselves and our families.

"My friends all told me what a wonderful country this is. I hope I can recover from this and go on to have a happy time here."

Monika became trapped in her rented flat above a shop just 15 yards from the 140-year-old Reeves furniture store that was blazing unchecked.

Fearing her own building was about to be engulfed, she called her sister Beata Bozenkow, who lives ten minutes away. Beata, 37, told her to flee.

Monika, who moved in just three weeks ago, frantically packed a bag.

But her flat had only a door to the rear of the building - and that exit was blocked by flames.

Monika said: "I tried to escape but it was like facing a wall of flame. Big red cinders were falling on my head and the wind was pushing the fire at me.

"Flames were coming up over my head. The fire was so hot I knew if I got too close it would kill me. I thought I was going to die - I thought I had lost my life."

She retreated back into her flat, which was rapidly filling with thick black smoke.

Monika desperately called her sister again. Beata and her husband Jurgen Mecaj raced to the scene.

But their way was blocked by cops trying to quell the riot. Tiler Jurgen, 31, said: "The police thought I was a looter, they said I could not get through. I begged them, saying 'Please, my sister-in-law is there'. Then they believed me and we all ran down."

Beata made a frantic call to terrified Monika, urging her to come to the window.

Monika said: "I was shaking so badly I could not open the window. But once I managed it I did not hesitate. I thought I was going to die in there. I did not care if I broke my legs and my arms on the ground. I saw a policeman with his arms outstretched and I just jumped and he caught me.

"Then they told us all to run away as fast as we could.

"Now when I see the picture of me jumping I feel very lucky to have my life. I never hoped to be famous, I just wanted to escape."

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Monika, originally from the small Polish city of Koronowo, had been watching TV on a day off when terror came to her street.

It was the third day of the London riots but she had no idea Croydon was to be the flashpoint.

Monika said: "I was warned at 4.30pm that there was trouble but didn't give it another thought.

"Two hours later I heard shouting and the sound of broken glass. I started getting nervous. I looked out and saw a young boy with his hood up running down the street with a huge plasma TV."

More than 50 looters were smashing windows ever closer to Monika's home and a bus was torched. Monika, who ventured out to see what was happening, said: "I saw boys smash the windows of the furniture store and struggle to steal sofas. At the back of the store I saw a boy start a small fire on a bed.

"I was becoming very fearful so I went back into my flat. I thought it was best to stay inside where it was safe." But she was soon in mortal danger as the store was engulfed by fire.

Monika said: "I came here for a new start. I never thought this could happen. It is the first time I have ever seen anything like this. These people are so stupid, it is terrible. I could have died, and for what?

"I am so grateful to the police and my family for saving me."

Monika arrived in Britain on March 18 after a 23-hour bus trip.

It was an escape from the drudgery of Poland where she made £200 a month working 12 hours a day, seven days a week as a convenience store supervisor.

She had become pregnant with her son Damian after leaving school, and married.

Monika later divorced and moved into a one-bedroom flat while continuing to work for a pittance. Beata, who moved to Britain five years ago, begged her to join her.

Monika overcame her qualms about a new country and language and made the move. She soon found work in discount shop Poundland - and never missed a day until Monday's terror. Damian, now ten, lives with his father in Poland.

Monika said: "Despite what has happened, I still believe I can build a better life here."

 

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London riots: pensioner who confronted rioting yobs dies after life support machine is switched off
A 22-year-old man has been arrested over the murder of a pensioner who was attacked after confronting rioters setting fire to bins.

Richard Mannington Bowes, 68, died from head injuries days after the attack in Ealing, west London on Monday night.

He was pictured lying face down in a pool of blood after being assaulted while trying to stop youths setting fire to large rubbish bins across the green from the flat where he lived alone.

The suspect was held in west London on suspicion of murder, rioting and carrying out three burglaries, Scotland Yard said.

It has emerged that Mr Mannington Bowes was a recluse who was tormented by youths repeatedly urinating and throwing litter in the street outside his home.

He was placed on a life support machine but from the outset his condition was so serious that doctors did not believe he would pull through. His estranged sister travelled down from her home in Derby yesterday, for a chance to say goodbye. Police described the former accountant as “reclusive and private” and said it had taken two days to work out his identity because he had cut himself off from the world since his retirement.

Originally from Bournemouth, he had lived alone in a flat overlooking Ealing’s Haven Green in west London for more than 10 years and had no mobile telephone or landline.

Neighbours said he was a man of “old-fashioned values” and had a history of confronting anti-social behaviour in the area, regularly reprimanding youths for littering in the alley outside his flat.

Relations disclosed that he had been estranged from his family for decades following a rift. His sister, Anne Wilderspin, 73, said she was “shocked” by his injuries but hoped the ordeal would help reunite her family. She told ITV News “You don’t think anything like that happens to a relative of yours. We’ve been horrified.

"I’m very sad to see him like this.”

Christopher Leaning, 67, an estranged cousin, said Mr Mannington Bowes came from a wealthy family but had vanished soon after his 20th birthday.

An accomplished pianist, he was described as a “single-minded” young man who had been shaken by the disappearance of his father, a doctor, during his childhood.

Mr Mannington Bowes cut all ties with his family, even rejecting the calls of an uncle who had tracked him down to Ealing using private detectives. “Richard was always a bit odd and single-minded, but it shocked everyone when he suddenly decided to go it alone and cut himself off from the family,” said Mr Leaning.

Neighbours of Mr Mannington Bowes told how he regularly walked across the green “with his head up and his chest out”, always wearing shorts with surgical supports on both ankles.

A friend and local businessman who was also attacked in the riots said Mr Mannington Bowes was a “harmless” and “lovely” man but he would often confront people. “He was the type of guy who was always asking people, 'Don’t put the rubbish there.’ He was always picking up rubbish and cleaning the road,” said the friend, who asked not to be named because he still feared reprisals by youths after his business was attacked and he suffered cuts to his face.

Another resident, Alastair Swinn, said Mr Mannington Bowes had told him off for smoking out of the window and dropping ash in the lane by their flats. “After that I got an ashtray,” he said.

Mr Mannington Bowes confronted stone-throwing youths on Monday night, but he was attacked and left for dead with a fractured skull.
He had not regained consciousness since the attack and died shortly before midnight last night.

Launching a murder investigation Detective Chief Inspector John McFarlane of the Homicide and Serious Crime Command said: “This was a brutal incident that resulted in the senseless killing of an innocent man.

“I still need the assistance of the community who may have witnessed the attack on Richard, to come forward and provide information or images they may have recorded on mobile devices.”

Detectives are hunting a youth they believe struck him in a lane behind the Arcadia Shopping Centre, which was looted.

Police were held back from reaching him by up to 100 youths throwing missiles, including bricks and chunks of paving slabs.

 

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No shame: Masked looters brazenly pose with their haul of top gadgets

Proudly posing with their stolen spoils, this bunch of thieves embody the greedy nature of looters who snatched whatever they could while ransacking England's streets.
Peeking from behind their obligatory hoods and scarves tied around their faces, their eyes defiantly stare at the camera with their hordes of looted goods.
One clutches a large flat-screen LCD television, with a row of new mobile phones neatly lied up on top of the box, while a pile of shoe boxes and video games litter the shabby room.
Laptops perched on their knees, another member of the group grips a baseball bat while a friend has a large heavy chain draped around his neck.

 

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welfare state

Police water cannon and plastic bullets? After 50 years of the most lavish welfare state on earth? What an abject failure

Bitter laughter is my main response to the events of the past week. You are surprised by what has happened? Why? I have been saying for years that it was coming, and why it was coming, and what could be done to stop it.

I have said it in books, in articles, over lunch and dinner tables with politicians whose lips curled with lofty contempt.

So yes, I am deeply sorry for the innocent and gentle people who have lost lives, homes, businesses and security. Heaven knows I have argued for years for the measures that might have saved them.

Fear, intimidation, cruelty, injustice, savagery: The mass criminality in the big cities is merely a speeded-up and concentrated version of life on most large estates
But I am not really very sorry for the elite liberal Londoners who have suddenly discovered what millions of others have lived with for decades.

The mass criminality in the big cities is merely a speeded-up and concentrated version of life on most large estates – fear, intimidation, cruelty, injustice, savagery towards the vulnerable and the different, a cold sneer turned towards any plea for pity, the awful realisation that when you call for help from the authorities, none will come.

Just look and see how many shops are protected with steel shutters, how many homes have bars on their windows. This is not new.

As the polluted flood (it is not a tide; it will not go back down again) of spite, greed and violence washes on to their very doorsteps, well-off and influential Left-wingers at last meet the filthy thing they have created, and which they ignored when it did not affect them personally.

No doubt they will find ways to save themselves. But they will not save the country. Because even now they will not admit that all their ideas are wrong, and that the policies of the past 50 years – the policies they love – have been a terrible mistake. I have heard them in the past few days clinging to their old excuses of non-existent ‘poverty’ and ‘exclusion’.

Take our Prime Minister, who is once again defrauding far too many people. He uses his expensive voice, his expensive clothes, his well-learned tone of public-school command, to give the impression of being an effective and decisive person. But it is all false. He has no real idea of what to do. He thinks the actual solutions to the problem are ‘fascist’. Deep down, he still wants to ‘understand’ the hoodies.

Say to him that naughty children should be smacked at home and caned in school, that the police (and responsible adults) should be free to wallop louts and vandals caught in the act, that the police should return to preventive foot patrols, that prisons should be austere places of hard work, plain food and discipline without TV sets or semi-licit drugs, and that wrongdoers should be sent to them when they first take to crime, not when they are already habitual crooks, and he will throw up his well-tailored arms in horror at your barbarity.

Say to him that divorce should be made very difficult and that the state should be energetically in favour of stable, married families with fathers (and cease forthwith to subsidise families without fathers) and he will smirk patronisingly and regard you as a pitiable lunatic.

Say to him that mass immigration should be stopped and reversed, and that those who refuse any of the huge number of jobs which are then available should be denied benefits of any kind, and he will gibber in shock.

Yet he is ready to authorise the use of water cannon and plastic bullets on our streets (quite useless, as it happens, against this sort of outbreak) as if we were a Third World despotism.

Water cannon and plastic bullets indeed. What an utter admission of failure, that after 50 years of the most lavish welfare state in the solar system, you cannot govern your country without soaking the citizenry in cold water and bombarding them with missiles from a safe distance. Except, of course, that it is because of the welfare system that this is so.

Here is an example of how little he knows about Britain. He says that the criminals of August will face the ‘full force of the law’. What ‘force’?

The great majority of the looters, smashers, burners and muggers have not been arrested and never will be. Our long-enfeebled police were so useless at the start that thousands of crimes were committed with total impunity.

Now we know why they don’t call themselves ‘police forces’ any more. But they aren’t ‘services’ either, for they certainly don’t serve us or do what we want them to do, preferring to arrest us for defending ourselves. The criminals, who are cunning without being intelligent, all know this. They will wait for the next chance.

Devastation: The emergency services were stretched beyond capacity as fires raged out of control during rioting
The loping, smirking, shuffling creeps who eventually appeared before the courts were the ultimate losers – the ones who came late to the looting and who were too slow or too stupid to run before they were put in the bag.

And what courts they are. In the one I sat in last week, self-confessed thieves are courteously addressed by magistrates and clerks as ‘mister’ and asked politely to stand up or ‘accompany the officers’ back to the cells or – more often – out into the street on bail. In the part of the dock reserved for those already free on bail, nobody has bothered to clean up the scribbled and disrespectful graffiti.

Why should anyone respect or fear this chamber of indifference? The wall-hangings behind the magistrates are scruffy and scratched.

There is no sense of awe or determination or of much purpose. There is only a strong sense of going through the motions for the sake of appearances.

Nobody is directly punished for what he has done. Excuses must first be sought, and indulgence arranged where there should be cold rage. There will be ‘social inquiry reports’ and ‘youth offender teams’ who bustle smilingly in and out ready to start work on yet another ‘client’.

All this piffle enshrines the official (and hopelessly wrong) view that crime is caused by circumstances and background, not by unleashed human evil. It is precisely because of this windy falsehood that the cells are crammed with young men who broke the law because they felt like it.

Hulking louts – black and white, for this was an equal-opportunity crimewave – are accompanied before the bench by alleged ‘parents’ who are obviously afraid of their broods. Nothing is said or done to express official disapproval of crime. The accused are treated more like patients than like wrongdoers.

Many in this rogues’ parade are still trying to qualify for prison, but are only, as it were, at the GCSE stage. They have sheaves of previous convictions, no doubt a tiny sample of their many acts of spite, selfishness and cruelty.


Missed the point: Many of the protesters appeared to be of school age but pupils are currently enjoying their summer holidays
You can bet their neighbours hate and fear them. Some are on bail for other offences, a state of affairs so common that it is almost funny. At least one is subject to a ‘suspended’ prison sentence, one of the many fake penalties handed down by the courts to fool the public into thinking that something significant happens to criminals.

They have all learned what most British politicians somehow cannot grasp – that the more encounters you have with our justice system, the less you fear it. A few ‘exemplary’ sentences – none of which will be served in full, or anything near it – will only help to spread the word that arson, robbery, violence, spite and selfishness are not punished here any more. Indeed these are the things we are now famous for around a world that once respected us.

And that is why we have many more nasty surprises waiting for us, here in The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain.

 

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They better leave UK asap, and hide in asia, south amercia until the courts cool down

 

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Remanded in custody - the 'Bad Samaritan' accused of attacking Malaysian student in the robbery that shocked the world

Reece Donovan, 21, left, of Romford, Essex, appeared yesterday before magistrates accused of robbing Asyraf Haziq Rossli, 20, right, of his Nokia mobile phone and a Sony PSP console
Reece Donovan, 21, of Romford, Essex, appeared yesterday before magistrates in Westminster, Central London, accused of robbing Mr Rossli of his Nokia mobile phone and a Sony PSP console.

Donovan is alleged to have been one of a gang who posed as good Samaritans as the student lay bleeding on the ground after his jaw had been broken by thugs in an earlier attack.

But instead of helping him, Donovan is alleged to have sneaked behind him and removed possessions worth £300 from his rucksack while other gang members distracted him.

Shocking: Mobile phone footage shows the Malaysian student beaten senseless by rioters, apparently being helped to his feet and then robbed by the mob pretending to come to his aid
Millions of television and YouTube viewers saw the culprit kiss his fingertips in a sick salute as he swaggered off with the stolen goods.

Last night, Donovan’s neighbours claimed their lives had been blighted by him playing loud music. One neighbour said that his favourite tune was a version of In For The Kill by La Roux, which he played at high volume every night.

The woman, who did not want to be named for fear of reprisals, said: ‘He listened to Eminem a lot but his favourite was In For The Kill.’

During yesterday’s hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, Donovan sat expressionless, staring at the floor.

Mr Rossli had been cycling along the Northern Relief Road in Barking, East London, when he was approached by a gang of 60 to 100 youths.


The first-year student was looking forward to breaking fast with his friends when he was brutally attacked by about 20 youths
He was punched with such force that his jaw was broken in several places. As he fell to ground, his bike was stolen. Mr Rossli was approached by another group of youths who helped him to his feet.

As some appeared to assist Mr Rossli, Donovan allegedly rummaged through his rucksack and took the phone and the Sony PSP. The incident was shown on news channels around the world.

Mr Rossli’s parents begged their son to go back to Malaysia. But Mr Rossli said he will stay in London and complete his studies, despite requiring surgery to have metal plates fitted in his jaw.

Yesterday, the court was told that Donovan, from Cross Road, Romford, had denied the charges. District Judge Nicholas Evans said he was remanding him in custody and ordered him to appear before Wood Green Crown Court in North London on August 19.

l  Joshua Donald, 26, from Ladywood, and a 17-year-old boy from Winson Green were last night charged with the murder of Haroon Jahan, Shazad Ali and Abdul Musavir, who were hit by a car in Birmingham on Wednesday while guarding shops from looters.

And detectives investigating the murder of Trevor Ellis, 26, of Brixton Hill, South London, have made a fifth arrest. Mr Ellis was found in a car in Croydon on Monday with a gunshot wound to the head.

 

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Re: They better leave UK asap, and hide in asia, south amercia until the courts cool

thanks for posting singveld...

too bad Britain cant deport them to oz like the good old days.

and 70% of the looters are blacks. Britain was stupid to allow them in. everybody knows poor blacks just cause trouble. they are right at home back in sudan or something committing genocide or mass rapes.

 

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It's a fact that 80% of muggings and robberies in London are commited by blacks.

Quotes from George Orwell's 1984 - During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

The most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

England riots: 'The whites have become black' says David Starkey

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14513517

 

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More then enough proof that rioters and looters were not just foreigners, poor, hooligans or minorities. They were a bunch of overly pampered trouble makers, used to getting whatever they want and thinks nothing of creating chaos in the name of fun

 

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try not to punch 68 yrs old man, and waste your life away in prison for nothing

Teenager, 16, 'killed kindly OAP with single punch' during riots

A 16-year-old boy killed a pensioner with a single punch as he tried to put out fires during the London riots, a court heard.

Onlookers pleaded ‘no, no, he’s an old man’ as a teenager wearing a T-shirt with the slogan ‘Robbers and Villains’ attacked.

Richard Mannington Bowes, 68, was punched in the face as he tried to extinguish a blaze near his home in Ealing, West London.
Violence: The 16-year-old who is charged with murdering Richard Bowes, 68, during Ealing riots arrives at court today in Croydon, south London

The 16-year-old who is charged with murdering Richard Bowes, 68, arrives at court today in Croydon, South London

The force of the blow caused him to fall over smashing his head on the pavement. He died three days later on August 11 from the injuries he sustained.

A 16-year-old boy has been charged with Mr Bowes's murder.

The Crown Prosecution Service also charged the Hounslow-based teenager - unidentified for legal reasons - with violent disorder as well as four counts of burglary.

They related to looting at a William Hill bookmakers, a Tesco Express, a Blockbusters video shop and a Fatboys restaurant.

The chubby teenager appeared in the dock in a black T-shirt with his arms folded. He did not enter a plea to the charges.

District Judge Robert Hunter refused bail and ordered him to appear on Thursday at the Old Bailey.
Enlarge Protecting his home: Richard Bowes, 68, was caught up in the riots in Ealing and died on Thursday

Protecting his home: Richard Bowes, 68, was caught up in the riots in Ealing and died on Thursday

The 16-year-old’s mother, sat next to him in the dock at Croydon Magistrate's Court wearing a grey and pink tracksuit.

The 31-year-old is charged with perverting the course of justice.

She cannot be named as it would identify her son.

Outlining the case against the teenage boy, prosecutor John Gardner said: ‘These matters go to August 8 and the area being Ealing Broadway in west London.

‘The circumstances are that Richard Mannington Bowes lived in the area, he was 68, and during the disturbances that were taking place in that area around Spring Bridge Road he was seen to walk from his home address toward the shopping area.

‘On Spring Bridge Road there is a hump back bridge and there was a stand off between 60 and 70 youths who were attacking police officers.’

Mr Bowes was seen walking along the road from his house toward the shopping centre by witnesses as trouble flared between the youths and the police.

Mr Gardner continued: ‘Fires had been lit and missiles were being thrown. It was during this period of time around 10.30pm the Mr Bowes was spotted going over to a bin which had been set alight.

'It would seem he was trying to extinguish the fire in the bin when he was challenged by a number of people who came from the crowd.

‘At this point he is punched in the face and falls backwards striking his head on the road surface. He remained completely motionless.’

Mr Bowes never regained conciousness after the blow and died three days later.

CCTV evidence showed a teenager, believed to be the same youth, wearing a jumper saying 'Robbers and Villians’ that evening.

Mr Gardner added: ‘There is a recording of voices being heard at the time saying ''What the **** are you doing, no no, he is an old man''.

‘Clearly this is a voice recording from the attack on Mr Bowes.’

The judge said: ‘I am satisfied from what I have heard to the nature of the allegations that a secure remand is necessary in order to protect the public from serious harm.'

The 16-year-old was taken down as his mother’s case was heard, with neither saying a word but exchanging glances.
Local residents and police attend to Mr Bowes who was assaulted after remonstrating with rioters in Springbridge Road, Ealing

Local residents and police attend to Mr Bowes who was assaulted after remonstrating with rioters in Springbridge Road, Ealing

Victim Richard Mannington Bowes showed at his sister's wedding
A woman lays flowers at the scene where a man was killed in the riots on August 12, 2011 in Ealing, England. The 68-year-old Richard Mannington Bowes subsequently died

Victim Richard Mannington Bowes shown at his sister's wedding (left) some time ago, and (right) people laid flowers where the attack happened

On Saturday night around 100 people attended a vigil organised by churches in Ealing in Mr Bowes's memory. It came a day after Ealing Council flew the Union Flag over its town hall at half-mast as a mark of respect.

On Saturday night around 100 people attended a vigil organised by churches in Ealing in Mr Bowes's memory. It came a day after Ealing Council flew the Union Flag over its town hall at half-mast as a mark of respect.

Mr Gardner said the case against the mother came after police visited her home and she admitted to disposing of clothing.

She was also refused bail and will appear alongside her son at the Old Bailey.

Mr Bowes, who lived alone in Haven Green, Ealing, was placed on a life-support machine following the attack, which took place as violence spread through the capital.

On Saturday night around 100 people attended a vigil organised by churches in Ealing in Mr Bowes's memory.

It came a day after Ealing Council flew the Union Flag over its town hall at half-mast as a mark of respect.

Mr Bowes's sister Anne Wilderspin said she was devastated at the violent nature of her brother's death.

Mrs Wilderspin, 73, said: 'We were able to spend some time with him before he died and we asked the hospital chaplain to give a short service.

'He was obviously badly injured and wouldn't survive - we realised that when we saw him.

'It's very sad, it would have been wonderful to be able to talk with him but that was not meant to be.'

Mrs Wilderspin lives in Matlock, Derbyshire with her husband Michael and said she never thought her family would be affected by the four days of riots in the capital.

She said: 'Before I found out it was him, I'd read that a 68-year-old man had been injured in the riots in Ealing but it didn't occur to me that it was my own brother. It took some time to sink in. It felt unreal.

'Richard is a hero. He took action to stop things from happening and paid for it with his life.'

 

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The brave police dog who suffered horrific injuries after looting thug threw brick... and patrolled streets for another TWO HOURS

A brave police dog whose skull was fractured when thugs threw bricks, bottles and petrol bombs at him during the riots continued to patrol the streets for two hours, despite blood dripping from his head.

German Shepherd Obi, 3, was badly wounded when he was struck just above his left eye when he and his handler PC Phil Wells were targeted by a violent crowd on Tottenham High Road.

But, despite blood pouring from his left nostril and in shock, the working dog soldiered on to help police try and contain the rioters who ransacked North London - despite later needing a CT scan for his injury.
Real life Lassie: Police dog Obi suffered a fractured skull when thugs threw bricks at him

Real life Lassie: Police dog Obi suffered a fractured skull when thugs threw bricks at him

PC Wells, who has cared for Obi since the dog was just an eight-week-old puppy, described he and his dog came under siege by remorseless thugs who deliberately targeted his 'best friend and closest colleague'.

'Obi is trained in public order, and that may be dispersing a crowd or pushing them back. We were on a stationary point when we came under heavy bombardment,' he said.


'There were lots of missiles coming at us, bottles, bricks, petrol bombs, street furniture, too many to count and one hit Obi on the top of the head.

'Initially he was a bit shocked but I gave him a check-over and tried to avoid any further injuries and after the initial shock he seemed fine so we carried on for another couple of hours.'

'Afterwards he was assessed and was showing signs he needed veterinary help.

'He was lethargic and was bleeding from the left nostril which could be a sign of head trauma so he was taken to the vet.'
Determined to do his duty: PC Phil Wells says despite being in shock Obi carried on helping him to patrol the ransacked streets for two hours after being hit

Determined to do his duty: PC Phil Wells says despite being in shock Obi carried on helping him to patrol the ransacked streets for two hours after being hit

The vet was worried about the Obi's injury and transferred him to the Royal Veterinary School in Cambridge for a CT scan.

'That showed he had a fractured skull above the left eye socket.'

Despite being signed off until he fully recovers, Obi's only outward sign of injury is a small shaved patch above his left eye where vets checked for bruising.

Constable Wells added: 'There is no definitive answer to when he is going to be back, it could be several months before the vet is happy he is fit to resume active duty. It is a case of taking it week by week.

'He is on medication so he is quite lethargic when usually he is a bouncy dog but hopefully with a bit of rest and recuperation he will be back to normal soon.'
Riot police encountered weapon-wielding thugs as they patrolled Tottenham

Riot police encountered weapon-wielding thugs as they patrolled Tottenham

Police dogs were brought out to contain the violence that flared up in pockets of the country - and were the targets of thugs throwing missiles at them

Police dogs were brought out to contain the violence that flared up in pockets of the country - and were the targets of thugs throwing missiles at them

Obi has lived in Surrey with Constable Wells, his wife Laura and children Abigail, seven, and Thomas, three, since he was eight weeks old and is seen as one of the family.

The officer said watching his dog lay on an operating table was a heartbreaking moment: 'Although he is not a pet - he is a working dog - when he is at home it is family time and he is part of our family.

'To see your best friend and work colleague get injured while at work is difficult but he is getting a lot support from everyone and he will be back fighting fit.

'I spend more time with Obi sometimes than with my children and family. When I am at work, he is at work and when I am at home, he is at home.

'He is my best friend and to see him get injured, to see him on a theatre table and you're not sure what has happened and you're not sure if it's touch and go, of course it is very emotional.'

PC Wells said he was shocked at the violence that flared, which left all of the eight dogs in his unit on Tottenham High Road with cut pads on their paws from the broken glass and debris on the street.

Some suffered severe cuts and broken teeth.

He added: 'I have never experienced stuff coming at us from all sides like that before.'

 

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Meanwhile, Christian missionary Remi Caillaux travelled back from Africa today to see his two sons in court accused of looting during the riots.

Samuel 20, and his brother Michael, 18, are accused of stealing from the Iceland store in south London during last week’s violence.

Their father is a leading missionary who heads several Christian charities and preaches across the world.

He is the founder and chief executive of the Yahweh El-Shaddai ministries and with Christian arts charity the Heaven Trust.

Remi travelled back from Ghana to see his sons in the dock of Camberwell Magistrates Court.

During the hearing he leant against the perspex screen and sighed in despair when district judge Tan Ikram denied bail.
Evangelical minister Remi Caillaux's two sons have been charged with looting
Kelan Morat, 18, leaving Camberwell Green Magistrates Court caught along with the two sons of evangelical minister Remi Caillaux

The two boys were part of a group of five who police spotted near the Iceland in Croydon in the early hours of Tuesday morning. All were carrying rucksacks and Michael had an Iceland bag. allegedly full of alcohol.

Prosecutor Nicholas Earl-Quarloo said that the boys told police they took items from the floor outside the looted shop.

He said: 'Inside the Iceland bag Michael was holding there were several bottles of alcohol without receipts. In his rucksack there were ten Capri sun drinks.

'He told police he had got them from Iceland and that it was just open. Police said it was not open, there was no staff there, stock was on the ground and the windows were smashed in.

'He replied ‘yeah, it was just open so I took them’.'

The court heard apprentice plumber Michael claims he was leaving his girlfriend’s house before he met up with brother and three friends by chance.

He said he took items from outside the shop that looked too damaged to be resold.

His mother, father and girlfriend, who is six months pregnant, were in court and the mother offered £500 surety for both boys.

Judge Ikram refused bail and said they faced a lengthy jail term.

He said: 'There seems to have been pre-planning involved. All the boys were carrying rucksacks. They did not appreciate that they could face a lengthy custodial sentence if found guilty.

'They appreciate that now.'

In God we trust? Evangelical minister Remi Caillaux's (left) has seen his two sons charged with looting whilst Kelan Morat (right) was also charged along with the Caillaux's boys