Southport locals take to the street for huge clean up after overnight riots
By Ashley Pemberton A huge clean up operation is underway this morning (Wed) after hundreds of far-right thugs rioted in Southport - leaving 22 police officers injured.
Violence flared when hundreds of demonstrators - believed to be supporters of the English Defence League - hurled bricks at cops and set a police van alight.
They'd earlier converged on a mosque, smashing its windows and chanting racist slogans.
It comes after false information spread online about the supposed identity of a 17-year-old arrested for stabbing three children to death at a dance class in the town.
Violence flared when hundreds of demonstrators - believed to be supporters of the English Defence League - hurled bricks at cops and set a police van alight.
They'd earlier converged on a mosque, smashing its windows and chanting racist slogans.
It comes after false information spread online about the supposed identity of a 17-year-old arrested for stabbing three children to death at a dance class in the town.