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Daily Mail, Friday, August 12, 2011

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Contempt of the girl looter, age 11

By David Williams, Chris Greenwood and James Tozer
THE faces of lawlessness were a mixture of contrition and contempt as they appeared before courts throughout the night and day yesterday.
Some were two-faced, apologising to magistrates and district judges in the hope of a lighter sentence, then spitting out their vitriol as they left.

CHILDREN, GRADUATES, A MUSICIAN . . . THE COURT MARATHON GOES ON

Many others went straight back to the cells, their requests for bail rejected. Some of the accused had been turned in by their shocked families, who saw their faces on TV. Among those who appeared in court were:

The 11-year-old girl looter

A smirking youngster who hurled stones at shop windows at the height of violence in Nottingham told police she wasnt bothered when she was arrested. That contempt for authority and total indifference was displayed at Nottingham magistrates again yesterday as she refused to apologise for her part in the riots. And even as prosecutor Sumaiya Saeedullah outlined the case, the girl, who cannot be named because of her age, took little interest in proceedings, chatting with court staff and smiling. Ms Saeedullah said the girl had travelled 16 miles from her foster home in Derbyshire on Tuesday evening to Nottingham city centre and was sitting in a McDonalds when she heard talk of there being a riot. She later told police she had been in a Stefan Hoyle, an aspiring musician, Mark Burns, 25, accused of smashing happy mood at the prospect of taking part was arrested with a stolen violin a digger into a Bootle post office and had accompanied three other girls and about 30 men, the majority masking their face with bandanas. Soon, the prosecutor said, the girl was part of a large scale rampage and she was seen by witnesses hurling stones at windows. District judge Morris Cooper heard the girl made full admissions to police after she had been arrested when members of the public pointed her out to officers. She claimed she had been egged on by others present, grabbed stones from a plant pot and hurled them at two fashion shop windows, New Look and Flannels. During the interview she told police she knew she was taking part in a serious disturbance but wasnt bothered. The court heard she had received a caution for criminal damage in 2010. During the proceedings she laughed and chatted with two male security guards who sat with her in the dock behind a glass panel. Judge Cooper asked the girls solicitor, Lauren Manuel: Does she have any indication how serious this is? to which Miss Manuel replied: Her understanding of what happened is limited because of her age. The defendants father was in court. He said: She knows what she has done and wants to say sorry. She is going through a bad time at the moment. Ronnie Whitby was arrested after a 19-year-old Michael Doyle, arrested When prompted twice by her father to apologise to the judge for what she had report of men carrying weapons for wearing a scarf over his face done the girl said nothing, smirked and looked away. The judge told her: You are only 11. This is very Bates he would go to prison, know where their child is of a Reid was released on bail and serious but because of your age probably for more than 12 night. The boy shamefacedly was told she could be jailed you are going to get a referral months. He was refused bail told the court: I did the wrong when she is sentenced on Seporder. He gave her a nine-month and sent to Inner London thing. But after leaving with his tember 1. referral order and she and her Crown Court to be sentenced. mother she told waiting reportfather would have to cooperate ers Watch your ******* face! with a Youth Offending Team. while he told a photographer to Within moments of leaving **** off! A student, who acts as a Bapcourt, the girl pulled her hood Stefan Hoyle was clutching a tist Church mentor for younger tight to hide her face while her looted violin when he was boys, looted jewellery and clothfather hurled abuse at arrested in the aftermath of ing from shops in Clapham photographers. riots in Manchester. Sobbing Natasha Reid was Junction, West London MagisSmelling strongly of drink, the warned she could be jailed trates were told. aspiring musician quipped: Ive despite handing herself in to Scott Bates, 18, admitted always wanted to learn to play police because she could not stealing trainers from JD Sports, A 12-year-old shaven-headed the violin. His parents wept in sleep with the guilt after lootwatches from Debenhams, and boy was the youngest rioter to the dock as district judge Alan ing a TV. a hooded top from Primark. appear in court in Manchester. Berg told the 19-year-old it was The 24-year-old graduate, of Bates told officers he had gone The youngster admitted stealan absolute tragedy that he Edmonton, who dreams of to Clapham Junction on Moning a bottle of wine worth 7.49 had thrown away his prospects becoming a social worker, was day evening to watch the riots from a city centre branch of in this way. on her way to McDonalds in and found the items lying Sainsburys. He was arrested Hoyle, of Manchester, was Enfield, Westminster Magisaround outside the shops. outside the looted store during arrested at 3am on Wednesday trates Court heard. His solicitor Joan Mitchell, the height of the trouble on when police encircled a group But she saw a Comet store said Bates was an active memTuesday and appeared in youth of youths and saw him clutchthat had been broken into and ber of his local baptist church court accompanied by his ing the violin, thought to be on the spur of the moment and mentored younger memmother where he admitted burfrom a music shop which had walked inside and helped herbers of the congregation. glary and was given a nineearlier been looted. self to a 270 JVC TV. Although he has previous conmonth referral order. He tried to run away as police The next day she was overvictions for robbery and theft, District Judge Jonathan Feinarrested a girl, but the court come by guilt and took it to Bates had turned his life stein told his mother that parheard he was chased and Chingford police station where around, she claimed. ents of youngsters need to she admitted her crime. District judge Paul Clark told caught, telling officers: I can

Behind bars: Bernard Moore

VIOLIN THIEF

RAM RAID

GRADUATE
Natasha Reid, who hoped to become a social worker, stole a TV from Comet

SHAMELESS! JAILING OF A TV LOOKALIKE

By Jaya Narain
Manchester he shouted insults towards officers and when they attempted to reason with Moore, he refused to leave the area. As an officer tried to arrest him Moore reached behind the visor of the policemans helmet and began clawing at his face. In a statement read in court, where Moore admitted assaulting a police officer, PC Doyle said: I could feel him scratching at my face trying to gouge my eyes out. At one point he put his finger in my mouth. Sentencing, Judge Khalid Qureshi said: To place your fingers inside the protective clothing that an officer was wearing, then to try to gouge his eyes is not reckless its intentional. Fortunately the injury sustained by the officer was minor your intention was to commit more serious harm. Others dealt with included: Tom Skinkis, 22, jailed for four months after he abused passers-by; Jason Ullett, 38, jailed for ten weeks for a public order offence; and Aaron Grima, 22, jailed for four months for assaulting a police officer.
bound over to keep the peace for two years in the sum of 500. In the same court, Michael Doyle, 19, of Birkenhead, Wirral, admitted behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace. He was arrested for wearing a scarf over his face in the town and was also bound over to keep the peace for two years in the sum of 500.

Low-life: TVs Frank Gallagher

MASKED MAN

MASKED MAN

ACCUSED
David ONeill, 22, from Sutton, Surrey accused of violence and harassment
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 violin.

WITH his straggly long grey hair and his three-day stubble, he bears an uncanny resemblance to Shameless low-life Frank Gallagher. And like the notorious character he also has a problem with staying on the right side of the law. But Bernard Moore is not so much a loveable rogue as a vicious thug. Yesterday he was behind bars starting a 20-week prison sentence for trying to gouge out the eyes of a police officer. He led a parade of mug shots of those arrested in Greater Manchester. Moore, 46, a beggar and Big Issue seller who came to Britain from America, has a previous conviction for a public order offence. He lives on a sink estate in Collyhurst, north Manchester with a young woman, calls himself Brian and like Frank Gallagher has several children who dont live with him. Moore begs every day in Manchester city centre and hangs around with drug addicts who take heroin and crack cocaine. Every night on his way back to his flat, he buys White Ace cider and Special Brew from a local off-licence with loose change. During the mass disturbances in

Baptist mentor

Aspiring musician

Guilty conscience

was caught. Lawson, a civil engineering student at South Bank University, had to be restrained by police and was punched repeatedly in the back. Ojjeh, an estate agent, denied burglary. The two other men admitted the same charge. All three were remanded in custody.

Boy of 12

Absent parents
The judge presiding over youths arrested during rioting in Manchester highlighted the absence of their parents at yesterdays hearings. One looter, a girl aged 14, had taken clothing and a mannequin from a Diesel designer store in the city worth 400. She was accompanied in court only by an elder sister as district judge Jonathan Feinstein heard how she had been expelled from school and showed little remorse for her actions. Judge Feinstein said: The parents have to take responsi-

bility for this child apart from one case I have not seen any father or mother in court. Dealing with two friends aged 15 and 16 who were caught inside a looted Maplin at 3.40am on Wednesday, he observed that they were just running wild with no sense of discipline. The pair, who a d m i t t e d b u r g l a r y, w e r e remanded in custody.

Masked men
A procession of men were charged over two nights of violence on Merseyside. Among them was Ronnie Whitby, 20, of Prenton, Wirral, who admitted causing a breach of the peace. He was arrested on Wednesday night after a report of men carrying weapons and was wearing sunglasses to cover his eyes. District judge Michael Abelson said: Im convinced he would have got into serious trouble if police hadnt nipped this one in the bud. He was

Ballet student
An aspiring ballerina was arrested after police published images of her looting two boxed flat screen TVs from a hi-fi store where 190,000 of damage was caused. The 17-year-old, who has been studying ballet since she was seven and wants to be a dance teacher, gave herself up after seeing a CCTV image of herself in a newspaper. She was among a group of masked women caught on camera looting Richer Sounds, in Croydon. She was remanded in custody.

The estate agent

Young rioter was seen hurling stones at windows
Gassam Ojjeh, 22, was accused of attempting to steal from a branch of PC World in Colliers Wood, South London the day after it had been devastated by rioters. Westminster Magistrates heard he was caught by a police dog handler at the store with students Saffron Armstrong and Kairo Lawson, b o t h 2 1 . A r m s t r o n g, a n accounting student at Kingston University, claimed to be a freelance journalist when he

The boy admitted stealing a bottle of wine

BOY OF 12

GIRL OF 11