depends on the crime. looting shops, and assaulting police is pretty serious. 6 months+ for that, and various other sentences.....but the police hate people who assault other police so i wouldnt be surprised if we see a few people get 2 years +

They started to annoy me now inmature kids!

EDL and BNP as previously mentioned these people should be immune from conviction and let them sort it out the old fashioned way!

Manchester tonight water Cannons are being used these would leave a bruse if they hit! And also plastic bullets arnt exactly soft so plenty of these and it will be over in a day or 2!

If I hear the EDL and BNP mentioned again I will scream.

They are racist, fascist groups, that is all.

Couldnt agree more mate

+1

A teacher assistant, A few uni students a 11 year old and graphic desigher were some of the first people in court today over robbery and attacking police officers.
I am telling you these riots have nothing to do with cuts, that lad been shot, or the economy they are just pure greed and criminality.

If i was in power tonight if there was some riots i would just let the dogs out or cops beat the hell out of them just to show this kinda behaviour will not be accepted. Protests are fine, Destroying people homes, businesses and killing 3 innocent people is not fine.

After these are over the goverment need to review education system from the bottom.

good call david cameron has authorised this i think

My view from outside of the UK about this issue.
offtopic: I have always been fascinated by violence, at least when its connected to football. From my 18th until my 30th i was involved in the dutch hooligan scene. Our firm contained unemplyed people, as well as plumbers, lawyers and students. All people who like to fight for their football club / city. I see some paralells with the riots in UK (not only England anymore i heard to day).
The reason i was involved there was (over) fanatism for the club and friendship between all the lads.
Is this present within the current rioters ? Think not.
Like already mentioned here, i guess all the vandalism/looting started because many (young) lads are unemployed, unsatisfied, are bored and have no future plans or expectations. I think the offenders can be divided in two groups; rioters and looters. If the rioters can be arrested, looting will disappear as well.
A serious problem, which will not be resolved by opening community centers etc.
To be honest, (financial) position of the whole country gets worse and worse.
Will more police in the street improve the situation?
Really dont know, but thats the only action which can be done by the police in my opnion.

All the best for the "victims".

Rain stop play.

if these attention seekin idiots wanna fight /cause riots ,then jet them off in the front line in afghanistan ,then see if they put up or shut up

All is calm again...

Watch Cameron claim he has tactically solved the riots with his hard line stance on criminality now.

No, David, they just didn't want to get their brand new trainers dirty in the rain.

The BNP maybe but the EDL are objective towards islamic extremism and they are fighting to keep this country free from sharia law. The founder of the EDL is a muslim and there is a whole variety of different races, religions and nationalities that represent the EDL, and yes you do get the odd one or two that are racist but dont tar the whole organisation with the same brush. You should read more!

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Edited at 00:45 Thu 11/08/11 (BST)

Tottenham Hotspur have announced that they have signed a new striker.

His name is Grabatelli

The EDL is a racist, fascist group. England will never be under Sharia Law, it will never happen.

By the way who doesn't object to islamic extremism?

Do some digging on the EDL by the way . They have closer links to terrorists than 99.999% of British Muslims.

FACT.

Without being arrogant (though you started it with the you should read more statement) I think you need to be careful what you are reading.

The EDL homepage for example is not worthy of reading.

Horrible, racist, bigoted, violent, skinheads, who as a result of the rioting will sadly gain more sympathy from the gaumless s*n readers of our society.

The problems in our society are not "those pesky Muslims" and the solution is certainly not the EDL/English Nazis

That page being run by EDL members, quite high up ones as well.

By the way there are hundreds of these comments on their facebook page, this one being the only one that didn't contain "vulgar" racist words.

LMAO

LMFAO!

Pan fried monkfish on a bed of wild rocket and cous cous, creamy dauphinoise potatoes covered in mature chedder cheese and a melt in the middle chocolate sponge with devon clotted cream..... Im not just a looter, im an M and S looter....

it gets 2 me how the news can name and shame a few looters(4 woteva reason they r doing it)and our so called government pays millions each year 2 cover up the identities of rapists and dirty peadophiles....if u ask me this country needs 2 be smashed up and built again

You only get Bail for this week?