The summer of discontent

In numbers: People sentenced for offences linked to the 2024 disorder

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HUNDREDS of people have been sentenced in the past 12 months for offences in connection with the disorder that broke out in parts of the country after the knife attack by Axel Rudakubana at a Southport dance studio on July 29 2024 that left three girls dead.

The PA news agency has tracked more than 500 individuals from charging to conviction and sentencing, to get as a full as picture as possible of how the criminal justice system dealt with those who took part in the disturbances.

PEOPLE SENTENCED

Some 544 people have been sentenced for offences linked to the disorder whose details have been recorded by PA.

The offences all took place in England and occurred in the days following the Southport attack, including the major outbreaks of violence in Southport itself on July 30, Liverpool and Stoke-on-Trent on August 3 and in Rotherham and Tamworth on August 4.

Of the 544 people, the most common location for an offence leading to conviction and sentencing was Rotherham (84 people), followed by Southport (73), Bristol (41), Liverpool (37), Hull (34), Manchester (32), Middlesbrough (28), Plymouth (22) and Stoke-on-Trent (19).

AGES OF PEOPLE SENTENCED

The oldest of the 544 people to sentenced is Keith Edwards, 81, of Nottingham, who was given a 28-day jail sentence, suspended for two years, after pleading guilty to a charge of assault by beating during unrest in the city on August 3.

He was also told to pay £85 in costs and a £154 victim surcharge.

The oldest person to receive an immediate prison sentence is William Morgan, 69, of Walton in Merseyside, who was jailed for two years and eight months for violent disorder and possessing an offensive weapon, a cosh, during unrest in Liverpool on August 3, in which police were attacked and a library was set on fire.