Rioters to face terror charges, warns top prosecutor

Jurists, protesters may be prosecuted for terror crimes, Britain’s chief prosecutor has said. 
 
Steven Parkinson, the Director of Public Prosecutions stated that his team would utilize each tool available to incarcerate those involved in the disorder, and that terror legislations are already applicable in one instance. 
 
Besides, over the past four weeks, more than 400 persons have been apprehended in connection with the violence and disorder across Britain. Hopefully there will be a lot more arrests in the near future. 
 
The comments emerged as the nation anticipated another day of violence with over 6,000 specialist riot officers ready and alert since extremists have said to be planning to storm at least 39 immigration centres in Britain. 

Mr Parkinson told the BBC: Yes there are sentiments that suggested that majority of those who have been caught in this disorder will be imprisoned immediately. There should not be nay doubt about that. He is going to prison and they are all going to prison too. 
 
Yes we could reconsider the terrorism offences. ” At least I am aware of one school where that is true. 
 
“Where you have organisations with a blanket call for action for the purposes of promoting an ideology… planning extremely, extremely serious disruption – then yes, terrorism offences will be considered. ” 
 
He posed it is “rather shocking” to find children as young as 11 participating in riots as he implored them they are liable to suffer long-term repercussions. 
 
This week, Neil Basu, ex-chief of UK counter-terrorism policing, claimed that some of the violence observed had advanced to ‘terrorism’. 
 
Mr Basu stated that events like the firing at people staying in the Holiday Inn Express hotel in Rotherham Sunday should be viewed as terrorism. He has called the rioters as “bullies and cowards”. 
 
However, Jonathan Hall KC, the Government’s independent reviewer of terror legislation slowed any notion from being branded as terrorism suggesting that politicians should not be quick to brand the riots as terrorism. 
 
He said care must be taken when the use of terrorism powers to a “live incident” because one may end up pointing fingers at a certain group. 
 
He added: “To my mind one has to be wary of deploying counter-terrorism in what is virtually a live situation. This can be very inflammatory, you’ll wind up with people pointing fingers. Some group will start saying: Well if you are referring to these people as terrorists…. ” 
 
Justice minister Heidi Alexander told the media that it would remain a decision of the CPS about what charges would be preferred against individuals involved in disturbances. 
 
Yesterday, the police agreed with some of the intelligence information that pointed to at least 30 areas that may experience social unrest on Wednesday, including London. 
 
Scotland Yard’s Deputy Assistant Commissioner Andy Valentine said on a statement that the recent event was one of the worst violent disorders in the past decade. 
 
He said: ‘It is a national critical incident and We will stop at nothing to protect London and its communities We will not allow this to happen on our streets We will use every single power, tactic and tool available to us’. 
 
The leader of the labor party Sir Keir Starmer during the statement from Downing Street on the evening of Tuesday declared that he awaits “serious punishment” of those involved in the unrest, before the “end of the week”. 
 
Following an emergency Cobra meeting at Downing Street, the Prime Minister said: They will all get the full impact of the law, I guarantee you. Now, over 400 people have been arrested, 100 charged with the crime some of it based on activity conducted online, and some of those charged are in court already. 
 
“Hopefully, that should give any would-be offender, whether actively involved in meddling or doing it from the comfort of home via the Internet, the hint that he is liable to get a whacking within a week’s time. ” 
 
However, he was accused by some of a timidity regarding the riots and Elon Musk, the high-tech industrialist, referring to him categorically as ‘two-tier Keir’. 

More on X, which used to be Twitter, the company he controls, Mr Musk was commenting on a video of the rioters pelting a pub in Birmingham with missiles. 
 
One man was shown being kicked in the head by a rioter, and Mr Musk captioned the video: Ways people need answer the question: Why aren’t all communities protected in Britain? 
 
This is following claims that there is “two-tier policing” with cops described as ruthlessly cracking down on Right-wing protesters compared to the lenient treatment given to Left-wing demonstrators. 
 
The Conservative leadership contender Robert Jenrick has queried the policing of the riots on Tuesday. 
 
Ex-chief metropolitan police Sir Paul Stephenson said something urging for application of the ‘full force of the law’ on all those involved in violence. 
 
Mr Parkinson emphatically affirmed that those who employed the internet to mobilise riots from other countries could be extradited and consequently prosecuted if necessary. 
 
Although he did not publicize any person left with any such offenses, it was reported earlier this week about Stephen Yaxley Lennon, the founder of the English Defence League, otherwise famously known as Tommy Robinson is on vacation at an all inclusive resort in Cyprus. 
 
He departed Britain last week in absence from a court case on allegations of violating a contempt of court order. 
 
Yaxley-Lennon has been criticised for his posts that he shared false information that incited the riot, following the circulation of the brutal attack on three girls in Southport last week. He has not taken responsibility for inciting violence or being involved in the process. 
 
Mr Parkinson was quite clear on this point that he is “absolutely” looking to recoup people for their online offences relating to the rioting and even if they are based abroad it will not excuse them from prosecution. 
 
He added: “Some people are abroad That don’t local mean they are safe The team has liaison and prosecutors located in other countries due to local connections with the local judiciary and law enforcement Police officers are also sometimes posted abroad. ” 
 
This came on the backdrop of 28-year-old man from Leeds being charged as the first to be prosecuted for inciting violence on the social media. 31 Year Old Jordan Parlour was charged with posting messages to the social networking site Facebook between August 1 and August five with the aim of fuelling tensions when demonstrations were in progress. 
 
He appeared in the Leeds Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday to entertain to counts that he had used threatening, abusive or insulting words in the posts as charged. He was bailed to custody for sentencing at Leeds Crown Court the following Friday.