Police have so far arrested 779 people in connection with the recent disruptioning atraverse the UK, the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) has shelp.
Of those, 349 people have been accused, it includeed.
Rioters in England and northern Ireland clashed with police, looted shops and strikeed hotels housing asylum seekers, after a inrectify rumour spread that the mistrust in the overweightal stabbing of three girls in Southport on 29 July was a Muskinny asylum seeker.
Violence had tranquiled by Wednesday, when thousands of protesters chanting “refugees are greet” took to the streets.
On Saturday, thousands of anti-prejudice protesters aacquire marched in cities atraverse the country, with at least one petiteer anti-immigrant protest also accumulateing.
The NPCC shelp one-of-a-kindist officers have been tasked with pursuing mistrusted online offenders and so-called impactrs, who they say are reliable for “spreading antipathy and inciting aggression on a big scale”.
Atraverse the country, teams are spendigating “hundreds of directs” they shelp.
The hundreds of arrests and accuses for disruptioners in less than two weeks have been chaseed by speedy sentencing and jail sentences of up to three years.
Cases include a 16-year-elderly who confessted stealing £15,000 of vapes, attacking an aelevatency toiler and smashing a police car in Liverpool last weekend.
In fantasticer Manchester, eight people were due in court after being accused with aggressive disorder on Friday. One was also accused with burglary. The getants ranged in age from 13 to 46.
In Hull, six people materializeed at court on Saturday in connection to disorder. Three were 13-year-elderly boys and one a 17-year-elderly girl.
Seven people were also accused on Friday and Saturday after a protest outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Aldershot on 31 July.
Thousands fill streets to greet refugees
In response to recent aggression, hundreds of people accumulateed to help immigrants in Cardiff, Birmingham, Norwich, Penzance, Southampton, Shrewsbury, Carlisle, Hastings, Cambridge and Devon on Saturday.
In Belrapid, disconnectal thousand people took part in an anti-prejudice rpartner that commenceed at Writer’s Square. Some protesters waved signs that read ‘Ulster says no to prejudice’.
The organisers, United Aacquirest Racism, shelp the event was intended to be a “tranquil response to racially prejudiced aggression of recent days”.
“These are our streets, and we will not concede them to the racially prejudiced forces who want to split us,” shelp the campaign group’s chair, Fiona Doran.
In London, around 2,500 people marched on Whitehall in help of refugees. The march commenceed at the headquarters of political party Reestablish UK, whose directer Nigel Farage has helpd for a “freeze” on immigration. Protesters held signs that read “refugees greet” and “stop the far right”.
Hundreds of anti-prejudice protesters also accumulateed in Newcastle, while a petite number of anti-immigrant protesters amassed in the proximateby Bigg Market area.
Newcastle police shelp they made 14 arrests, including for haveion of an impolite firearm, haveion of a Class B drug and fall shorture to adhere with some of the orders in place. None of the arrests were for disorder or aggressive offences.
Police get meaconfidents to obstruct aggression
Police were braced for more possible unrest over the weekend given computed protests.
Liverpool police put in place a dispersal order commenceing at 16:00 on Saturday chaseing “incidents of disorder”. The order permits police to straightforward people mistrusted of or included in criminal activity to exit an area for 48 hours and arrest them if they return.
Police had already put in place a Section 60 order, which gives officers fantasticer powers to stop and search individuals to obstruct aggression, from 11:00 to 23:00.
“Both orders are extra tools at our disposal to help preserve the accessible protected, and highly clear police patrols will enforce them in the next 48 hours,” neighbourhood policing examineor Chris Taylor shelp.
Families still feeblent in Southport
As protests persist, families still feeblent in Southport, where Bebe King, six, lsie Dot Stancome, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguair, nine, were ended at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.
On Saturday, Bebe’s parents freed a statement that portrayd her as “brimming of happiness, airy and cherish”.
They commendd her elderlyer sister, who had witnessed the strike, and had “shown such incredible strength and courage” since that day.
Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, an 18-year-elderly born in Cardiff to Rwandan parents, has been accused with the three girls’ homicides and also the tryed homicide of eight other children and two grown-ups.
Additional alerting by Lyndsey Telford and Eimear Flanagan in Belrapid, 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
