On St Denys Road in Southampton, Sophie Martin clears a stray brick away from her driveway. On Tuesday night, as unrest gripped her suburb, that brick was thrown through the rear windows of both of her family’s cars, parked outside her home as her children slept inside.
She and her family are fashioning plastic coverings over the shattered windows, having cleared the glass and debris from the back seats that house her children’s car seats. It was outside her home of 10 years, in the Portswood neighbourhood, where violent disorder erupted after an outcry about the police’s response to the murder of student Henry Nowak.
