A mother who put her own child in danger when she took him to a riot outside a migrant hotel sobbed in the dock today.
Nevey Smith, 21, cried throughout the hearing at Manchester Magistrates Court as she admitted she was charged with violent disorder after throwing “liquid” from a bottle at police when she “lost her temper” in Newton Heath on July 31.
Smith, of West Street, Failsworth, was taking the child in a pram to her grandmother’s when she spotted her aunt standing near the hotel chatting to other people.
Today she said she was “deeply sorry” for her attack on police after a judge told her: “You put your own child in danger.”
Prosecutor Tess Kenyon said a mass disturbance had broken out outside a hotel on Oldham Road, during which Smith was seen throwing a liquid from a bottle at police officers.
Nevey Smith, 21, cried throughout the hearing at Manchester Magistrates Court as she admitted a charge of violent disorder after a judge told her she had put her own child at risk when she took the children to a riot outside a migrant hotel.
Riot police outside the hotel in Newton Heath on July 31, where Smith threw “liquid” at officers after she “lost her temper”
“This happened after two asylum seekers entered the hotel,” she said. “She had a child in a stroller with her at the time.”
Robert Moussalli, mitigating, said his client was “deeply sorry.”
“She was taking her child to the grandmother when she saw her aunt standing with some people near the hotel and went to talk to her,” he said.
“Then people started screaming and she went to the front of the group and her aunt went to the back with her child. She wasn’t going to do anything.”
He said Smith threw water, but officers did not come into contact with it.
He added that she “lost her temper” when someone behind the police officer “shouted at her.”
“I accept that she alone is to blame,” added Mr Moussalli.
District Judge Joanne Hirst granted her bail on strict conditions, saying: “I am prepared to give you a chance. You are putting your own child at risk.”
Meanwhile, a distraught grandmother today said she was at the end of her patience after her 12-year-old grandson was branded “Britain’s worst rioter” by a judge and did not know how to help him get back on the right path.
The boy, whose father is in prison, appeared in court yesterday and admitted taking part in two mob shootings in Manchester within three days.
His mother watched in tears as a judge said he was “more involved in the violence and unrest than any other defendant.”
The boy was warned that he would face consequences when the judge told him, “It’s time you stopped letting your mommy down.”
But the bully’s angry grandmother today claimed she had cared for the boy for seven months before he clashed with her disabled son and left their home in disarray.
He then returned to his mother – and disappeared for a week before becoming involved in riots.
The 12-year-old boy, whose father is in prison, appeared in court yesterday and admitted taking part in two mob raids in Manchester within three days.
The bully’s angry grandmother today claimed she had looked after the boy for seven months before he clashed with her disabled son and caused chaos in their home.
Police outside a Holiday Inn hotel in Newton Heath, Manchester, on 31 July following riots
Yesterday, a youth court in Manchester was told that the boy had been involved in two incidents of disturbing the peace within four days.
Prosecutor Tess Kenyon said he was part of a group that gathered outside a Holiday Inn hotel in Manchester where asylum seekers were being housed on July 31, two days after the knife attacks in Southport.
She said a video showed him “passing a rock to another youth during the riot” and kicking the side of a passing bus.
His mother told the court that he suffered from ADHD and had moved in with his grandmother for seven months because of his behavior at home, but then returned “because she couldn’t cope with him.”
District Judge Hirst said it was the first case in which she had dealt with a person who had been present at both incidents.
She added: “He is more involved in the violence and unrest than any other defendant, adult or child, that I have seen in these courts to date.”
