Five years on from the worst English riots for 30 years

It's five years since the riots which led to the worst unrest in UK cities since the 1980s.

Shops were looted and set on fire, five people died and hundreds were injured as thousands took to the streets.

The violence kicked off following the police shooting of Mark Duggan, 29, in Tottenham, north London.

Trouble then spread to cities including Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Nottingham, Derby, Wolverhampton, Coventry and Bristol.

Secunder Kermani is a BBC Newsnight journalist and has been looking at the impact of the riots for BBC Radio 1 & 1Xtra Stories.

You can listen here: The Riots Five Years On

Secunder - the journalist

"I remember the riots so clearly.

"I've still got photos I took of the high street with all the windows smashed in - stuff strewn across the road, police trying to lock parts off and cars burnt out.

"Like most of us, I'd never seen anything like it.

"This documentary focuses on the riots in Clapham Junction in south London.

"I wanted to understand what drew so many different people together in that one place that night.

"So, I spoke to business owners of shops looted and vandalised and teenagers whose lives were changed forever by time spent in prison, including Scott, who when he was 18 spent six months in jail for stealing watches and jewellery during the riots.

"Scott had a tough time growing up - both his parents were alcoholics and so he was living in a hostel at the time of the riots.

"He's managed to turn his life around and is using his experience working with young people just up the road from where the riots happened, trying to stop them from getting involved in crime."

Scott - the convicted rioter

"I was sitting there one day and my friend came upstairs and knocked on my door and he's like 'come round to Junction [Clapham Junction]' there's something going on.

"The area was just full up of young people. It felt hugely powerful, I've never felt an experience like it.

"Wholeheartedly, the adrenaline was scary.

"People had so much stuff, as I'm walking down the road where JD sports is, people are running past and things are just dropping.

Scott now works with young people trying to stop them from getting into crime

"There was cigarettes unopened there was clothes, there was electricals.

"I just picked up what I wanted.

"Twenty-four hours later I got arrested in the bath, they grabbed me and basically went into my bedroom found the stuff and then I got taken to the police station.

"I got arrested at about four or five o'clock in the afternoon and I was in court at 3am and then straight to prison.

"I do believe the young people do need a lot of work.

"I don't know whether it's due to the area, there's all different reasons but I do think they need a strong interaction and they do need to be guided because at the end of the day they're the up and coming for society."

Ornelia Giarratano - the beauty salon owner

"Some of [the rioters] had their faces covered, a lot of them had hoods on - I could see one shop window after another being smashed by bricks and kicks.

"When they got to the bank opposite us - when I saw that they just flung it open with just a couple of kicks I became terrified.

Damage done Ornelia's hair Salon after the riots

"I remember one girl stood right in front of me after the first brick came in - she was 16 or 17 with a red bob and blue eyes. I still remember how she was dressed.

"She saw the panic on my face and turned towards her mates and said 'look, look how scared she is.'

"She was actually happy, she was smirking.

"I've heard interviews with rioters since and they were talking about the injustices for young people and getting their own back.

"But I haven't done that to them, we're just normal people trying to earn a living and put food on our tables.

"If you really need to take it up with someone take it up with the police."

Dwayne - the 'protest' rioter

"I didn't have a problem with JD Sports or Carphone Warehouse or anyone like that. I had a problem with the Metropolitan Police.

"The biggest gang in the world are the police, no matter how many gangs looted or rioted and rose up.

"All we did was rise up against one big gang and yes it was good to see them run.

"The riots will be remembered in history but it'll be remembered for a lot of the wrong things.

"It should be remembered for why it started - the killing of Mark Duggan - the warring against the police not the looting of the shops."

More than 2,000 people were found guilty and sentenced for crimes relating to these riots and government statistics show offenders were three times more likely to be jailed by magistrates than other criminals.

More than 2,500 shops and business were attacked by looters and vandals, along with a further 230 homes and insurers paid out £170m for the clean-up according to the Association of British Insurers.

Listen to The Riots Five Years On Then (2011) and The Riots Five Years On Now (2016) here or on the BBC iPlayer Radio App

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