I lived at Stockwell Park Estate as a child. I was there as a 12 year old at the time and watched some of it from the safety of a high rise balcony window.

Those who refer to any justifications are in my view talking out of their rear ends.

I would be surprised if anyone with any decency partook in those riots. The people I watched were just opportunistic thugs.

I refer you both to police operations and sometimes very violent attitude to the young black males in the area in the previous year, months, weeks and days leading up to the riot and also the 'Sus Law'.

There is plenty of documented evidence from participants and others. If you both were to avail yourselves you will see that plenty of rioters were not your usual thugs. More chaps who had had enough of continual harassment based on the colour of their skin and decided to act.

I refer you both to police operations and sometimes very violent attitude to the young black males in the area in the previous year, months, weeks and days leading up to the riot and also the 'Sus Law'.

There is plenty of documented evidence from participants and others. If you both were to avail yourselves you will see that plenty of rioters were not your usual thugs. More chaps who had had enough of continual harassment based on the colour of their skin and decided to act.

Police operations that were interfering with their rampant criminal activities. They should have sent in the troops and shot a few of the 'chaps'.

Lets just say for arguments sake there were 500 muggings in Brixton over a six month period back then. How many different muggers do you think were responsible? A rough figure. 20? 40? 100?

And how many thousands of black teenagers/young men would have been living in that area at the time? A few.

They were deemed guilty by skin association by the police. There's yer riot.