One boy had been nabbed by the police with a couple of Burberry shirts in his knapsack. Someone else had taken a violin.

One boy had been nabbed by the police with a couple of Burberry shirts in his knapsack. Someone else had taken a violin. Trainers galore, plastic carrier bags of mobile phones, tracksuit bottoms, sunglasses. If there hadn't been a trail of arson, broken glass, people trapped in collapsing flats and houses, the wholesale destruction of shops and livelihoods and deep fear, I would have said 'stealing sweets'

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