Nine on trial after UK riots

Seven men and two youths went on trial today in connection with riots last year during which a police station was petrol-bombed.

The defendants, from Nottingham, are Lance Francis, 25, of no fixed abode; Callum Joseph Powell, 20, of Top Valley; Shaundrie Riccardo Robinson, 22, of Hyson Green; Gregory Hensley Coleman, 20, of Broxtowe; Roxwell Yeboah, 34, of Radford; Bobby Muers, 18, of St Anns, and Ricardo Cotteral, 23, of Basford along with two youths, aged 16 and 17, who cannot be named for legal reasons.