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Rioting thugs have not given Southport families second thought, Sunderland police say

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Rioting thugs have not given Southport families second thought, Sunderland police say after violence

Families of Southport stabbing victims have not been given a second thought by thugs involved in violent disorder in Sunderland, police have said.

A police station was set alight and photos on social media showed a blackened Citizens Advice Bureau office in the city on Friday, 2 August.

Yobs tried to smash a gravestone to use as missiles during widespread violence in the city, a local priest said.

It came after the killing of three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed holiday club on Monday.

Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, 17, from Lancashire, is accused of the attack, but false claims spread online that the suspect was an asylum seeker who had arrived in the UK by boat.

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