An arsonist who set fire to a building during the Southport riots gave an interview to the BBC describing how his life had ...

Detectives have arrested a man from Wigan in connection with violent disorder in Merseyside last summer. The 22-year-old was ...

Children's Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza, who spoke to some of the youngsters who were charged during the riots, said ...

A new report concluded that youngsters got involved because it 'looked fun', not because they had racist views ...

The families of two of three girls murdered at a dance class in Southport have told of the moment they heard ‘something awful ...

Children who took part in last summer's riots sparked by the Southport murders were motivated by "lack of opportunity" and ...

She made the comments as she published a report that found that children who took part in last year’s Southport riots were not racist but joined in the disorder because they “thought it looked ...

His main reason for going to the protest was to see friends to show off his new “Turkey teeth", a term for a popular cosmetic ...

John Rasburn, 47, was captured on CCTV spitting and throwing cones at police officers during the Southport riots - he later handed himself into police and has now been jailed ...

Ironically, the clear presence of psychological factors can also be seen—at a different level—in some of the people involved ...

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