UK riots latest: Boy, 12, admits throwing missile at police as Tory councillor’s wife Lucy Connolly appears in court

A 12-year-old boy has admitted throwing a missile at a police van and taking part in two separate incidents of rioting in Manchester.

He pleaded guilty to two charges of violent disorder at Manchester Magistrates’ Court , sitting as a youth court, on Monday afternoon.

During unrest in Manchester city centre on 3 August, prosecutor Tess Kenyon Kenyon said the boy was “filmed by police kicking the front window of a vape shop” and was also seen to “throw a missile at a police van”.

He was remanded to local authority accommodation and will be sentenced at Manchester Magistrates’ Court on 2 September 2.

Lucy Connolly, the partner of Conservative West Northamptonshire councillor Raymond Connolly, also has appeared in court accused of publishing an X post stirring up racial hatred against asylum seekers.

Connolly’s husband watched from the public gallery in courtroom four at Northampton Crown Court as she was remanded in custody by Judge Adrienne Lucking KC.

The 41-year-old childminder, of Parkfield Avenue, Northampton, will reappear at the same court on September 2.

It comes as far-right riots engulfed the country, with over 900 people arrested and 466 charged in relation to the violent disorder.