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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Hannah Al-Othman North of England correspondent

Teenager who smashed window during Middlesbrough riots freed on appeal

line of police, fire and group of people
Police face people rioting in Middlesbrough in August. The judges said ‘sentences should be designed to deter others from similar criminal activity’. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

A teenager jailed for smashing a restaurant window during rioting in Middlesbrough is to be freed after appeal judges ruled that a court had not considered his complex developmental and mental health background.

Dylan Willis, 18, who pleaded guilty to violent disorder after repeatedly smashing the window with a brick, had his 14-month sentence suspended by court of appeal judges on Thursday.

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