Teenager who urged Facebook friends to 'kill a million police' and looter who took a single lick of stolen ice cream are jailed


  • Another rioter who found nothing left worth stealing in camera store is also locked up for 16 months




  • Man who was so drunk he had forgotten he had been on a riot is jailed




  • Now more than 2,000 have been held over London rioting in total



  • Amed Pelle, 18, used Facebook to incite violence.


    A teenager who used Facebook to encourage the 'killing of a million police officers' during the riots has been jailed for 33 months.

    Amed Pelle incited his 2,000 friends on the site to commit violence and looting in Nottingham.

    He asked if any of them 'wanted anything' from a fashion store that was later targeted.

    The jobless 18-year-old posted three messages on his Facebook 'wall' on August 9, hours before serious disorder broke out in his home city.

    The first two read 'Nottz Riot whose onit?' and 'Kill one black youth, we kill a million Fedz (police), riot til we own cities'. It is believed the second message was a reference to Mark Duggan, whose death in Tottenham sparked the original trouble.

    In his third message, Pelle wrote: 'Rioting 2nyt anyone want anything from (fashion chain) Flannels?' The store, in Nottingham city centre, had its windows smashed hours later.

    Pelle had pleaded guilty to a breach of section 44 of the Serious Crime Act 2007, doing an act which was capable of encouraging or assisting the commission of an offence, namely violent disorder.

    Judge John Milmo told Pelle that his comments 'encouraged attacks on the people of Nottingham as a whole, and the people of other cities.'

    Sentencing the teenager to two years and nine months in a young offenders' institution, he added: 'Your offence was designed to, and could well have led to, increased numbers on the street intent on violence to persons and property.

    'An element of deterrence is called for in cases like this. A clear signal needs to be sent out that criminal conduct of the kind demonstrated in these cases is out of order and will not be brushed under the carpet.'

    Ice cream thief: Anderson Fernandes, 21, was jailed - despite giving away his ice cream after just one lick
    Ice cream thief: Anderson Fernandes, 21, was jailed - despite giving away his ice cream after just one lick.



    His sentence came as a looter who took just one lick of an ice cream he stole during rioting before he gave it away was jailed for 16 months.

    Anderson Fernandes, 21, wandered into an upmarket store in central Manchester after the door was left open and helped himself to a cone and two scoops.

    But despite giving it to a passer-by because he didn't like the coffee flavour he was still given a lengthy prison term.

    The sentence will fuel fears that courts are meting out disproportionate justice to those caught up in the disorder.

    Callum Marley, 20, was also locked up for 16 months in Manchester despite stealing nothing from a looted store.

    He crawled under ransacked shutters at a Cash Generator pawnbrokers yet left empty handed when he found nothing worth taking - because everything had been taken already.

    Figures last week showed that rioters were getting sentences which were '40 per cent longer' than people found guilty of equivalent offences.

    As the clampdown continues, Scotland Yard revealed today that over 2,000 people have been held in connection with rioting in London.

    Yesterday Manchester Crown Court was told that ice cream thief Fernandes, 21, was arrested after raiding Patisserie Valerie because he left DNA behind at the scene.

    He admitted burglary and an unconnected charge of handling a stolen vacuum cleaner after his arrest.



    Upmarket shop: Fernandes walked into this Patisserie Valerie in Manchester and helped himself to a cone and two scoops of ice cream

    The court heard that Fernandes had already appeared in court charged with possessing drugs and an offensive weapon on the same day he got mixed up in the disorder.









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