“If I think about it too much I could cry to be honest,” said Victoria Rose, dropping her baby off at a day nursery. “This really is not Hartlepool, that is why I’m so upset about it.”
She was speaking on the morning after hundreds of rioters, including children, took to the streets of Hartlepool throwing bricks and other missiles at police in an evening of violence described by witnesses as mindless and indiscriminate.
