Court proceedings have suggested that very few of the young people involved shared openly racist views. Judges were told youths saw the unrest as a social event
he footage played in court lasted only seconds. A 16-year-old boy, dressed all in black with his face covered, hurled a rock towards riot police from the steps of Bolton’s cenotaph. Around him people chanted: “Allah! Allah! Who the fuck is Allah?”
Having never before been in trouble with the police, the teenager was now among the hundreds on a conveyor belt to prison after the prime minister ordered a “robust and swift response” to the worst civil disorder inthe youngest to be charged is a 12-year-old boy – described by one tabloid as “the UK’s worst rioter” – who admitted violent disorder for taking part in two disturbances, one outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Manchester on 31 July and a planned far-right march in the city...
Akhgar, the solicitor for the 16-year-old boy in Bolton, told the court he had practically no views on immigration or knowledge of politics. “Being involved and simply wanting to belong to something that is happening seems to have been the major motivation,” she said. Jones told the judge, Simon Blakebrough: “He has none of the extremist views that have been attributed to many of those who were there. He had gone because he was being nosy.”
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