As images circulated of the riots in Southport last week, many noted that the so-called “protestors” - who were reacting to the mass stabbing of eleven young girls at a Taylor Swift dance class on 29 July - were holding cans of beer. “Turning up to a vigil for three murdered young girls with a crate of cider,” one post on X read, “the victims of this tragedy are the last thing on their minds.”
Now it’s suspected that that’s not all some of them were carrying. Amid the 400 arrests for violent disorder, assault and breach of protest conditions, there have been three arrests for possession of Class A drugs.
