Prison For Bottle-Thrower Filmed During 'English Riots'

A bottle-throwing yob – captured on CCTV targeting outnumbered police during last summer’s mass disturbances – has been locked up.

Odilon Soumalat, 23, of Stevens Avenue, Homerton, East London was filmed hurling glass bottles at officers in nearby Clarence Road, Hackney on August 8, last year.

He pleaded guilty at Wood Green Crown Court to violent disorder and was sentenced to two years-and-three months imprisonment.

He was later identified, via the footage, by an officer from Stoke Newington police station.



Detective Constable Gemma Wade - from Hackney's Operation Withern team - said: “This is an excellent result and shows that officers at Hackney continue in their efforts to identify and bring to justice those people responsible for the August disturbances.

“Results such as this make the hard work seem even more worthwhile.”