the family, who live in a new-build house in a small town

How can they be racists?! They’re middle-class!

Christ I hate The Express.

“Shitrag.” I just wanted to say it too. “Shitrag.”

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There is a point to be made that it should be recognised that children can be groomed into abhorrent behaviour - similarities with Shamima Begum spring to mind.

The Express is not the place to go for that though, as it is an appalling shitrag which is firmly on the side of the rioters.

The Daily Express is an utter shitrag, don’t give them clicks

but feel the punishment does not fit the crime.

Agree. Was too soft. She went in and charged to vandalize and attack asylum seekers. Maybe some exile will teach her some empathy on how those people were already feeling.

Yuck, Daily Express. One of the nastiest rags in the UK.

“child, 13” - a 13yo is a teenager, not a child.

That article was a pain in the ass to read, horribly structured.

What she did: “The court heard the girl was taken to the protest outside the Potters International Hotel, which houses asylum seekers, by a parent of a friend. Police body-worn video showed the teenager briefly bang and kick at a door of the hotel while voices could be heard telling her to stop.”

Her sentence, a “12-month referral order”: “A referral order means you are required to attend a youth offender panel. The panel, you, your parents/carers and the victim (where appropriate) agree a contract aimed at repairing the harm that has been caused and addressing the causes of the offending behaviours.” (https://unlock.org.uk/advice/referral-order-18/)

The conviction seems to be on permanent record, though, which does seem a bit much for this considering her age.