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Top U.K. prosecutor considers terrorism charges over ongoing riots and disorder
Amid ongoing far-right riots and demonstrations fueled by misinformation online, England and Wales’ Director of Public Prosecutions Stephen Parkinson said his teams would consider seeking extradition for social media influencers who are accused of stoking the violence from abroad and charging some suspects with terrorism offences, CBS News partner network BBC News reported.
Offenders “must know that they are not safe and there is nowhere to hide,” Parkinson said.
Around 400 people have been arrested in connection with the violence, and police chiefs in the U.K. said an extra 2,200 riot-trained officers would be deployed across the country, Britain’s Guardian newspaper reported.
One man was seriously injured after an assault Monday night in the Northern Ireland city of Belfast, which police are treating as a racially motivated hate crime. Witnesses reported seeing attackers stamp on the man’s head, according to the BBC.
U.K. Prime Minister Kier Starmer called another emergency response meeting on Tuesday and said those behind the disorder would “face the full force of the law.”
The violence “is not protest — it is violent disorder and needs to be treated as such, as criminal activity,” Starmer told members of his cabinet Tuesday.
Violence erupted in a number of cities and towns across the U.K. last week after the murder of three young girls in a knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in the northern England town of Southport. The attacker was falsely characterized as Muslim and a migrant. The actual suspect, who is facing multiple charges of murder and attempted murder, was born in the U.K.
Rioters have attacked mosques and hotels that house asylum-seekers, looting shops and burning cars. On Tuesday, lawyers in the U.K. called on lawmakers to address their safety concerns after a list of dozens of immigration advice centers was circulated on social media with a message suggesting they be targets of unrest on Wednesday, Britain’s Guardian newspaper reported.
The violence has prompted countries including India, Nigeria and Australia to warn their citizens in the U.K. to stay vigilant, according to the Reuters news agency.
London’s Metropolitan Police will “use every power, tactic and tool” to protect London against “one of the worst spates of violent disorder in the last decade,” Met Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Andy Valentine said in a statement.
“I’m so scared, even when I’m walking now,” Saminata Bangura, a 52-year-old care worker from Liverpool, told Reuters. She said she had initially felt welcomed when she moved to the U.K. from Sierra Leone, but now she is mainly staying at home.
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Dodgers legend Fernando Valenzuela, known affectionately to fans across the baseball world as “El Toro” has died at 63 years old.
The Etchohauquila, Sonora, Mexico native recently stepped away from his role in the Dodgers’ broadcast booth to focus on his health just ahead of the team’s run to the World Series. He had planned to return for the 2025 season.
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The man behind “Fernandomania,” which took Los Angeles by storm during the 1980s, spent 11 of his 17 seasons in Major League Baseball with the Boys in Blue, leading the team to two World Series titles in 1981 and 1988.
He was well-known for his signature windup and high leg kick before dazzling hitters with his virtually unhittable screwball. Upon retirement, he ranked amongst the franchises top 10 all-time in wins, strikeouts, innings pitched, games started, complete games and shutouts.
The Dodgers honored Valenzuela in 2023 by retiring his No. 34, making him only the 11th Dodger to achieve the spot above the left field bleachers.
Late Tuesday evening the team took to X to acknowledge Valenzuela’s death.
“Fernandomania por siempre,” said a photo. “Fernandomania forever.”
More to come.
DELPHI, Ind. (CBS) — Jurors in the Delphi, Indiana murders trial got a closer look Tuesday at some of the most concrete evidence in the case.
Richard Allen, 52, is facing four counts of murder in connection with the murders of Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty “Libby” German, 14, in 2017.
Video taken from Libby’s phone right before the murder shows a man, believed to be the killer, walking on a bridge. For the first time Tuesday, jurors got to see a longer version of the video.
A digital forensic analyst also testified about how he got the data off the phone.
Also Tuesday, lead crime scene investigator Brian Olehy brought several key pieces of evidence from at or near the crime scene to court—though they were not shown to the jury, according to CBS affiliate WTTV in Indianapolis.
During cross-examination, defense attorney Brad Rozzi asked several times whether swabs from the crime scene contained any DNA linking Allen to it, WTTV reported, Olehy said he was not aware of any such connection.
Olehy also testified that he believed the branches found on the girls’ bodies were placed there to conceal them, and said it was a “logical assumption” that Libby was “disrobed”—as she was wearing some of Abby’s clothes, WTTV reported. He said investigators could not determine the sequence of events, and did not test the sticks that were found with the bodies, the station reported.
There was also testimony about a single unspent bullet at the scene that is at the center of the case against Allen, the station reported.
Testimony was also heard from Railly Voorhies, who was a 16-year-old high school student who happened to be walking near the Freedom Bridge in Delphi and saw an “unsettling” man who glared at her, WTTV reported. She said the image of the man on the bridge documented in Libby’s phone was the man she saw, the station reported.
Another witness, Betys Blair, also testified that she saw the man on the bridge, WTTV reported.