Shocking mobile phone and police bodycam footage has been released which shows the violence and destruction that scarred a Swansea community during the May'hill riot. What should have been a peaceful vigil for a local teenager who died suddenly became a riot which saw cars trashed and torched, homes attacked, and police officers and vehicles pelted with bricks, stones, bottles, poles, and even garden furniture.
On Monday 18 people were jailed at Swansea Crown Court for their parts in last May's disturbance - you can read our live coverage of the sentencing hearing here. Sending the defendants to prison judge Paul Thomas KC said the death of a young man was "shamelessly and cynically hijacked for the purposes of criminal mischief" and the riot which ensued "was not born of discontent but by a desire for mass entertainment."
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