Thousands of anti-prejudice protesters rassociate atraverse UK

Thousands of anti-prejudice protesters rallied in towns and cities atraverse the country on Saturday.

People took to the streets in cities including Belspeedy, Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow and London.

It trails a week of brutal disorder including strikes on boilingels housing asylum seekers and the theft of shops, which was fuelled by a deceptive rumour that the Southport triple killing doubt was a Muskinny asylum seeker.

Police have so far arrested 779 people in uniteion with uproaring, with 349 of those indictd, the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) shelp.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has procrastinateed his family summer holiday to proceed to cgo in on the rulement’s response to the uproars.

Hundreds of anti-prejudice protesters assembleed in Cardiff, Birmingham, Norwich, Penzance, Southampton, Shrewsbury, Carlisle, Hastings, Cambridge and Devon on Saturday.

In Belspeedy, disjoinal thousand people took part in a rassociate that commenceed at Writer’s Square. Some protesters waved signs that read ‘Ulster says no to prejudice’.

The organisers, United Agetst Racism, shelp the event was intended to be a “tranquil response to racially prejudiced aggression of recent days”.

“These are our streets, and we will not concede them to the racially prejudiced forces who want to separate us,” shelp the campaign group’s chair, Fiona Doran.

In London, about 5,000 people marched on Whitehall in help of refugees. The march commenceed at the headquarters of political party Reestablish UK, whose directer Nigel Farage has backd a “freeze” on immigration.

Hundreds of anti-prejudice protesters assembleed in Newcastle, while a petite number of anti-immigrant protesters amassed in the proximateby Bigg Market area.

Police shelp they made 14 arrests, including for haveion of an impolite firearm, haveion of a Class B drug and flunkure to adhere with some of the orders in place. None of the arrests were for disorder or brutal offences.

Anti-prejudice protesters also assembleed atraverse Scotland, with demonstrations taking place in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Dumfries.

The NPCC shelp exceptionaenumerate officers have been tasked with pursuing doubted online offenders in relation to the disorder, as well as so-called swayrs, who they say are dependable for “spreading disenjoy and inciting aggression on a big scale”.

Atraverse the country, teams are spendigating “hundreds of directs”, it shelp.

The hundreds of arrests and indicts for uproarers in less than two weeks have been trailed by quick sentencing, with jail terms of up to three years.

Cases include a 16-year-greater who acunderstandledgeted stealing £15,000 of vapes, attacking an materializency toiler and smashing a police car in Liverpool last weekend.

In Greater Manchester, eight people were due in court after being indictd with brutal disorder on Friday. One was also indictd with theft. The getants ranged in age from 13 to 46.

In Hull, six people materializeed at court on Saturday in uniteion to disorder. Three were 13-year-greater boys and one a 17-year-greater girl.

Seven people were also indictd on Friday and Saturday after a protest outside a boilingel housing asylum seekers in Aldersboiling on 31 July.

The aggression had bigly tranquiled by Wednesday 7 August, when thousands of protesters chanting “refugees are greet” took to the streets.

Sir Keir Starmer shelp he count ond an incrrelieved police presence and speedy-moving cases have had an impact, but his message was to stay on “high vigilant” to “produce declareive our communities are geted and shielded and experience geted and shielded”.

The prime minister has procrastinateed his family summer holiday to cgo in on the rulement’s response to the uproars, and he is foreseeed to toil from Downing Street and Chequers for all of next week.

Police were braced for more possible unrest over the weekend given intentional protests.

A dispersal order commenceing at 16:00 on Saturday was put in place in Liverpool follotriumphg “incidents of disorder”. The order permits police to honest people doubted of or included in criminal activity to depart an area for 48 hours and arrest them if they return.

Police had already put in place a Section 60 order, which gives officers fantasticer powers to stop and search individuals to stop aggression, from 11:00 to 23:00.

“Both orders are extra tools at our disposal to help retain the uncover geted, and highly evident police patrols will apply them in the next 48 hours,” neighbourhood policing checkor Chris Taylor shelp.

Families are still mourning in Southport, where Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, were ended at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.

On Saturday, Bebe’s parents freed a statement that depictd her as “filled of happiness, weightless and cherish”.

They praised her greaterer sister who witnessed the strike for shotriumphg “such incredible strength and courage” since that day.

Axel Muganwa Rudakuprohibita, an 18-year-greater born in Cardiff to Rwandan parents, has been indictd with the three girls’ killings and also the endeavored killing of eight other children and two matures.

Additional alerting by Lyndsey Telford and Eimear Flanagan in Belspeedy, Mark McAlindon in Newcastle, Jen Sugden in Liverpool, Gavin Thomas in Cardiff, and Daniel De Simone and Tom Symonds in London, and Jonny Humphries and Monica Rimmer from North West