SPREADING TERROR

BLAZING violence that stunned London for three days spread to urban centres across England despite the enormous police crackdown restoring a sense of order to the country’s capital.

The Metropolitan Police ordered 16,000 officers onto the street last night as it sought to lock down the districts where control had been lost and property destroyed since the weekend.

This came as fresh questions emerged about the conduct of the police in the killing of a man whose death sparked the first confrontations.