One in five people arrested over 2024 riots have since been reported for domestic abuse

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/26/one-in-five-people-arrested-over-2024-riots-have-since-been-reported-for-domestic-abuse

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    1. One out of every five people arrested after their participation in the 2024 summer riots has since been reported to the police for domestic abuse, the Guardian can disclose.

      Police data released under freedom of information (FoI) laws shows that 21% of 949 people arrested for taking part in the violent disorder have been reported for crimes associated with intimate partner violence since August 2024.

    2. OrangeGoon83 on

      Nothing quite like protecting our women and children from these dastardly foreigners

    3. “For individuals arrested by Cumbria police, this figure was as high as 54%.

      Offences for which alleged rioters have since been reported include common assault, controlling and coercive behaviour, breach of domestic violence protection notice and injunctions, threats to kill, actual bodily harm, and criminal damage.

      The Guardian previously revealed that two out of every five arrested for participating in the riots had been the subject of a domestic abuse report before their involvement in the public disorder.

      Calls to protect women and children alongside anti-migrant rhetoric have been a common feature of these rallies.”

      Jesus what’s going on in Cumbria?! And the irony of calls to protect women and children having been a common feature of the rallies, the “jokes” write themselves.

    4. BigBrownFish on

      Doesn’t most domestic abuse go unreported? I’d guess the number would be much higher.

    5. pathsofglorylogotter on

      That’s nice, what do you intend to do with this information?

      Rioters, are obviously going to have higher agression rates and more likely to have a past.

    6. We really need to stop public policy being dictated by our most outspoken, violent thugs.

    7. appletinicyclone on

      They still haven’t tackled the misinformation machine on Twitter that instigated it though

    8. IwatasTrueSuccessor on

      I bet they have a fridge full of Stella and a Reform UK membership.

    9. Spamgrenade on

      Someone really needs to work out the per capita number for right wing supporters offending rates. If somethings up we need a public enquiry focused exclusively on their culture, lifestyle and religion.

      I mean nearly all their leadership and prominent figures are bent in one way or another.

      Jack Renshaw – EDL, BNP, National Action: four counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity. Wayne Kirby – Tommy Robinson associate: served six years after being convicted for rape in 2007. Bradley Daniel Alford, EDL: 6 yrs, indecent photos, inciting a child to engage in sexual intercourse. Kristopher Allan, SDL: convicted for messages, images, and sexual contact involving a 13 year old. Luke Atkinson, UKIP & Yorkshire EDL: jailed 4 yrs, 8 mths, grooming young teenagers. Alan Boulter, EDL and all round racist: 20 mths, attempted grooming. John Broomfield, EDL and British Freedom: ‘making indecent images of children’ and inept mosque attack. Dean Chambers, EDL & BNP: 5 yrs, sexual assault. Michael Coates AKA Micky Blue Eyes, NW Infidels: charged with 2 attempted rapes and other sex offences. Bruce Cordwell, EDL: 3 yrs, 7 mths, grooming. Michael Cowen, neo-Nazi: 3 yrs, child pornography. Alan Thomas Ellis, Deeside EDL: convicted of sending texts of a sexual nature to a 14 year old girl. Robert Ewing, EDL, BNP, NF: grooming & murder of 15 yr old. Ryan Fleming, National Action: 3 yrs, sexual activity with a child, his 2nd sexual offence. Darren Francis, BNP, sexual relationship with 13 year old. Christopher Gamlin, Britain First: 21 mths, grooming & trying to incite a child into sexual activity. Pete Gillett, EDL speaker: 18 years, multiple offences of rape and indecent assault on children. Nigel Hesmondalgh, BNP: jailed for possessing a series of degrading photos and videos of children. Dale Hewitt, EDL: 10 years for multiple sex offences against teenage girls. Ian Hindle, BNP, jailed for sexual activity with 14-year-old girls. Mark Hogg, EDL: 9 months for sexual assault on a 14 year old. Elliot Jones, EDL and part of the self-styled ‘pedophile squad’ jailed for, err, pedophilia. Mervyn Jones, North Wales Alliance/Combined Ex-Forces: guilty of rape, attempted rape, indecent assault. Shaun Jones, Liverpool Scouse Nationalists: jailed for grooming and raping a 12 year old girl. Michael Kinnear, BNP and EDL: jailed for sexually abusing a 7 year old. Gavin Leist, BNP, child porn. Leigh MacMillan, EDL: convicted of three counts of indecent assault, two of indecency with a child and one of attempted rape. Jailed for a total of 17 years. Michael McQueenie, EDL Blackburn: pleaded guilty of two counts of rape of a 14-year-old girl and sexual assault. Brett Moses EDL Hull: 12-month prison sentence for sexual grooming. Paul O’Brien, Blood & Honour fascist: 9 yrs, rape, sexual assault. Stephen Payne SDL: convicted of grooming a 13 year old. Richard Price, former EDL leader: four counts of making indecent images of children. Michael Roles, Britain First: 18 yrs child rape. Roderick Rowley, BNP: child porn and sexually abusing 10-year-old girl. Mark Ryley, Britain First, Infidels of Britain & Nick Griffin supporter: 30 years for multiple sexual offences against young girls. Mark ‘Archie’ Sleman, EDL: kidnap & attempted rape of 10 yr old. James Swindlehurst, White Man March: jailed for 20 years for 13 counts of child rape. Trevor Vinson, EDL, Britain First & Jayda Fransen supporter: 21 years for repeated sexual abuse and making obscene images of 3 year old girl. Andrew Wells, BNP: jailed for sexual activity with 14-year-old girls. Matthew Woodward, Deeside EDL: charged with child pornography and soliciting a 13 year old for photographs.

      Think of the children etc.

    10. How the hell are men like this even able to find relationships in the first place? You obviously can’t blame victims here – many men put up a facade and few advertise their violent tendencies but it isn’t as if these men are attractive, successful or have good social skills.

    11. peaceandloveandhippy on

      I had a quick google of the percent of people in the UK as a whole who are victims of domestic violence, and it came back as 1 in 5.

    12. Pheasant_Plucker84 on

      The type of people from my town that were at the unite the kingdom march were the drug dealers, violent criminals and domestic abusers. No doubt they were there to protect our own. They could try not selling heroin in our town, but hey that’s just my lefty woke opinion.

    13. removekarling on

      When the right wing sends its people, they’re not sending their best

    14. QuailTechnical5143 on

      Said it then, still true. There are a lot of people
      In those crowds that you don’t want near children and any women nearby should be covering their drinks.

    15. rogerwilcove on

      If only they were American, then they’d be in for a payday from Trump’s Convicts Fund.

    16. KnightsOfCidona on

      Problem with these guys they are control freaks and there response when things aren’t the way they like, they respond with violence. Wife not doing what they want them to do – beat her. Seeing to many black and brown people around the place – smash the place up. They’re thin skinned men who can’t accept that the world isn’t the way they want it.

    17. Hellstorm901 on

      “Protect o’r kidz, beat ‘ur’ wives”

      I guess the chant should be now

    18. “When don’t know how to start changes, start with your family” (c) /s

    19. Less than 24% of domestic violence cases are reported. There’s a good chance the other other 4/5 just haven’t been reported.

    20. So these people are literally the scum of society looking for ways to spread their criminality to those outside their house. Thats why they want “immigrants” to integrate, so they’re easier to target!