Someone looted Lush.

"Don't worry darling, I got something for you"

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uk
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      1 month ago

      These are only the early, cases which have been easier to prove and process. They have just started charging people with riot, which carries a maximum 10 year sentence.

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uk
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    1 month ago

    Paul Williams, 45, was jailed for two years and two months on Friday after pleading guilty to one count of violent disorder in connection with the Sunderland riots.

    The court heard he had entered the city centre to collect a takeaway, but ended up at the "forefront" of an "orgy of mindless destruction, violence and disorder".

    His defence lawyer said he had no political opinions around immigration and was "entirely unaware of the basis of what started this".

    Newcastle Crown Court heard Williams threw metal fencing and a can of beer at police, stripped off his shirt and ran at the line of riot shields.

    It makes you wonder what goes on in some people's heads (or doesn't go on).

    • JohnSmith@feddit.uk
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      1 month ago

      he had entered the city centre to collect a takeaway

      That’s one expensive takeway. I hope it was tasty.

    • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk
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      1 month ago

      So he just innocently went into town to get a takeaway wearing an ill-fitting St George’s cross t-shirt?

      What a spot of luck for him!

      • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uk
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        1 month ago

        To be fair to him (and I'm not feeling fair), that photo is of the previously mentioned rioter who was done for inciting violence, which totally wouldn't believe looking at his picture.