Southport riot: first offenders jailed for violent disorder

Two men have been jailed in the first televised sentencing hearings over the riots sparked by the killing of three young girls at a community centre in Southport. More than 50 police officers were injured as protesters hurled bricks, lit fires, and threw bottles a day after Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, were killed in an attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class. Read the best of our journalism: Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: Find us on Facebook: Find us on Twitter: Find us on Instagram: #uk #crime #protest