Girl, 13, pleads guilty to violent disorder over riots - as Lush looter admits vandalising 10 cars

A man who looted shops and vandalised 10 cars has appeared in court over the UK riots - with a 13-year-old also admitting offences today in a separate case.

John Honey, 25, pleaded guilty to three charges of burglary at Lush, the O2 store, and Shoe Zone during riots in Hull on 3 August.

He also admitted racially aggravated criminal damage after he helped attack a BMW with three Romanian men inside.

Honey damaged nine other cars at a garage and pushed a bin at police lines, with prosecutors saying he "played a prominent role" in violence in the city.

He was due to be sentenced in Hull today, but it was adjourned until Friday after the judge said he had received a letter from a prison officer about Honey's behaviour.

The staff member said he was an "over-confident individual" with "no remorse" who had asked the probation officer if he wanted his autograph, the court heard.

Honey is said to dispute the claims and wants to be sentenced on the grounds he is "genuinely remorseful".

A 13-year-old girl also pleaded guilty on Tuesday to threatening unlawful violence outside a hotel housing asylum seekers while with a group in Aldershot, Hampshire.

The teenager, who cannot be named due to her age, sat with her parents as she admitted the offence outside Potters International Hotel on 31 July.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said she was seen punching and kicking the entrance to the hotel.

She was bailed and will be sentenced at Basingstoke Magistrates' Court on 30 September.

Thomas Power, a senior crown prosecutor, said: "This alarming incident will have caused genuine fear amongst people who were being targeted by these thugs - and it is particularly distressing to learn that such a young girl participated in this violent disorder.

"Large scale public unrest is never acceptable and the Crown Prosecution Service will not hesitate to respond swiftly and robustly to uphold law and order."

Her conviction comes as analysis by the PA news agency shows at least 50 youths under the age of 18 have been charged in connection with the nationwide disorder.

Prosecutors have been fast-tracking people through the courts following the week of violence that took place around the UK after the Southport stabbings.

Sentences as long as three years have been handed down, and yesterday two 12-year-olds became the youngest sentenced over the violence.

One of the boys was filmed throwing an object at a police van, as well as kicking the window of a vape shop and a passing bus, according to the CPS.

Others sentenced on Tuesday include 19-year-old father-of-one Drew Jarvis, seen lighting an arrow and throwing it at officers during rioting outside Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham on 4 August.

Jarvis also admitted throwing bricks at police protecting the hotel, where asylum seekers were staying, and was jailed at Sheffield Crown Court for three years after pleading guilty to violent disorder.

'Torches and pitchforks'

Two more people were also jailed at Chester Crown Court for stirring up racial hatred online by calling for protests outside a hotel in Runcorn.

Christopher Taggart, 36, and Rhys McDonald, 34, who are both from the Cheshire town, pleaded guilty and were given sentences of 32 months and 28 months respectively.

The court that McDonald posted on Facebook: "Need to march on the Daresbury Hotel with torches and pitchforks."

A few days later, Taggart wrote on the site: "We don't want them here. F*** em. They started we will end it. All of this wouldn't have happened if they shut the boarders (sic)."

Police also found a knuckle duster while searching Taggart's home.

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Some 975 people have been arrested and 546 charged in relation to the disorder, the National Police Chiefs' Council said on Monday.

However, the government has said it cannot guarantee some won't be released after serving 40% of their sentence under a scheme to ease prison overcrowding that begins in September.

Protests and violence by far-right supporters appear to have died down for the moment.

Fears of more than 100 gatherings last Wednesday failed to materialise as large numbers of counter-protesters took to the streets.