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Then the whole crowd started marching up the road, with a four-door saloon car as a figurehead. It was absolutely, without a shadow of a doubt, attempted murder.

Rioters are not just attacking the police and looting - they start to set fire to their own neighbourhoods, including shops with residential flats above.

Among the targets is a local landmark, the year-old Reeves furniture store. Lewisham has roaming groups of people stirring up trouble. At least people loot a Tesco in Bethnal Green. Fires are started in Lambeth, petrol bombs thrown in Hackney. Because we wanted to see everything on fire. To show them, 'what can you do now? There's nothing you can do'".

And I felt good. Mr Cameron says there are contingency plans for water cannon to be used at 24 hours' notice. The Ministry of Justice says there are enough prison places for all. The shops ran out of stuff. All the phone shops went instantly. Magistrates' courts in London, Solihull and Manchester among others stay open through the night to fast-track those already in custody for disorder-related offences.

The shops did not trouble them. That's the shops their mums and their gran have to go to. The post office - they've got grandparents - there's no post office for the elderly.

Police combed CCTV footage to identify culprits. Over the following months, more than 2, people were traced, charged and convicted. Like, I'm on it. And it was blatantly obvious they were stolen. And then someone asked me for a pair and I gave them a pair, and the street cameras caught my face. There was no official government inquiry after the riots, but there were reports by other bodies. Opportunism, social deprivation, discontent with the police and unemployment were all mentioned, but a single overwhelming cause for what happened over those five days in August was not pinpointed.

Over the days that followed, the police were roundly criticised. The Met later acknowledged that its inability to monitor social media meant it could not get ahead of events. Analyses following the riots found that police tactics were hampered by inadequate numbers, that they should sometimes have intervened more promptly and assertively, and that intelligence was flawed.

They all praised the bravery of the officers on the frontline. Ministry of Justice figures show a total of 1, offenders were jailed for their part in the trouble. Rioting was seen as an aggravating factor. Sentences were longer and more people were sent to prison than would normally be expected for the same charges under different circumstances.

Nice little story for them, isn't it? You know, like World War Two and that with my great-grandads. If it was to happen again, I would happily join in. Anything against the police, I would happily join in. I was there for revenge. For once they were living on the edge, they felt how we felt. They felt threatened by us.

I had the opportunity to take my dog out for a walk in the park. London youth services cut in half since riots. Metropolitan Police Service. London Fire Brigade. Inquest: The death of Mark Duggan. Image source, PA Media. At the end of the rioting, five people had died, hundreds were injured and scores were homeless. Image source, Getty Images. Some rioters described the affected areas as "combat zones".

Thursday 4 August. Image source, Duggan family. Friday 5 August. Saturday 6 August. Image source, Alan Stanton. Friends and family of Mark Duggan went to Tottenham police station to "get answers". The first night, violence spread from Tottenham police station along High Road. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police have condemned a wave of "copycat criminal activity" across London in a second night of looting and disorder. Sunday 7 August.

Rioters have described the disorder as having "a party atmosphere". JD was one of the chains targeted across London. Sivaharan Kandiah's convenience store in Hackney was looted.

Pam Duggan, Mark Duggan's mother, pictured after the inquest that found her son's killing was lawful. London youth services cut in half since riots 'The riots will forever stay in my mind' Why Mark Duggan's killing was deemed lawful. Monday 8 August. The unrest attracts spectators as well as rioters. The early hours see more shops set alight. His death is widely believed to have sparked the riots. By November , a total of people had been arrested in Newham by the police with 66 charged.

In addition, of those arrested in the borough had previous convictions. The average age of those arrested at that time was The youngest person held was 11 and the oldest arrested was This newspaper has been a central part of community life for many years.

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However, for a few, the riots were positive. Respondents in areas of England with the highest levels of skills deprivation actually reported an increased happiness during the riots. Panka Bencsik , author of the report, believes that interviews with rioters highlight why this pattern emerged. Since its inception in , Mappiness has had more than 2 million responses from more than 30 thousand participants. The results suggest that the observed drop in well-being is indeed causally linked to the riots, as such a pattern of substantial drop exactly in the areas which experienced riots does not emerge at various tested periods before.