Thursday, October 20, 2011

UK riots: Number of accused forces courts to open doors on Sunday

procession included a woman who works with children with learning difficulties and a teenager on bail for a gang murder

courts of London opened its doors on Sunday for the first time that the justice system in England struggled to deal with those accused of involvement in the riots last week.

a procession of people - a woman who works with children with learning difficulties, 18 bail for a gang murder and a jacket - appeared in Westminster Camberwell magistrates court

The decision to hold emergency sessions live as Scotland Yard revealed it had arrested 1,457 people - including 305 children under 18 years - in connection with the unrest, with 810 defendants

a series of delays, missing files and the absent defendants and lawyers low level of chaos in the process. At one point, District Judge Deborah Wright, sitting in a court of Westminster, expressed his frustration: ". It is now half an hour sitting at the time and did nothing in this court "

then District Judge Susan Williamson, as exasperated by the delays, he said. "I do not know how we were most unfortunate in this state"

The two cuts were due to hear cases 79. Some of the accused were tried in the afternoon.

At age 15, of Walthamstow, east London with her stepfather came after the court heard that his mother was too upset to participate in their actions. The court heard he had been in a bus with a friend in the morning when they saw a gang of youths passing by and the Costco store in Chinatown. East London. Seeing the store had been robbed, the teenager and his friend entered.

The child, who is awaiting his GCSE results and plans to begin college in the sixth, took an MP4 dock, he gave up as he left the building. He was arrested for his friend's mother reported her concerns to promote a social worker and police were contacted.

Williamson asked: "What I do know what is a 15 year old making the house an hour you have to go away and think very carefully to their behavior? the future if you find yourself in this situation again. "

The teenager admitted the theft and gave a reference to nine months, Williamson said he was "a last chance."

Another 15 year old boy, admitted breaking into Zee & Co, a fashion boutique in Bethnal Green, east London, three times on Monday night and Tuesday morning.

The judge asked the boy's mother, who was in court, what she thought I was doing at 3 o'clock, the last time I walked into the store. She replied: "I was at home at three o'clock." "Of course it was not because he pleaded guilty to two offenses," said Wright.

The teenager was bailed to appear at Thames Magistrates Court on August 30. Wright said: "Mom needs to be considered in order to make an order of paternity, given to three hours, I did not know where her son."

Shane Johnson, 20, of Islington, north London, who admitted attacking police vehicles and shops during the riots in Hackney on Monday, was remanded in custody to appear for sentence of the Court of Crown green wood, north of London, August 22.

The court heard he had attacked police cars and a Ladbrokes shop paris, with "sticks" during the riots. Judge Wright said that his action had "inflamed an already volatile situation."


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