The London riots
Looters rampage through a convenience store in Hackney, east London. In the summer of 2011, rioting and looting spread across Britain. During five days of violence, hooded youths set buildings and cars ablaze, smashed shop windows and hurled bottles and stones at police, in the country’s worst unrest in decades.
Looters run from a clothing store in Peckham, south London.
Police officers in riot gear detain a man in Birmingham after rioting and looting spread to Britain's second-largest city.
Looters carry boxes out of a home cinema shop.
Burning timbers crash to the floor, after a shop was set alight in Woolwich, southeast London.
Burnt cars smoulder on a street in Ealing, west London.
Police officers pin a man to the ground as they detain him in Eltham, south London.
Police officers stand near a burnt-out shop in Clapham Junction, south London.
A man looks at a looted florist shop in Ealing, west London.
A police officer and council worker clean the pavement from where they had moved the burnt-out shell of a camper van, which was torched during overnight rioting and looting.
From the balcony of a housing estate, residents watch as demonstrators march in northeast London.
A police forensics officer steps past a shoe as he inspects the crime scene where three Muslim men were killed by a car in the Winson Green area of Birmingham.
Tariq Jahan (centre, rear) is embraced by members of his community after Friday prayers at the Dudley Road mosque. Jahan's son Haroon was one of three men killed by a car as they stood guard against looters.
People pray at the scene where the three men were killed by a car during rioting.
