Croydon MP, Gavin Barwell, said: "I have spoken to well into double figures of people who saw people with walkie-talkies and radios directing people around."
I can confirm this. Only the downmarket end of Croydon town centre towards Thornton Hearh and small businesses were torched.
No corporate multinational premises were seriously dammaged.
In August 2011, three separate police units were following Mark Duggan as he travelled in a taxi through Tottenham.
1. According to the police, Duggan threw away a gun.
No witnesses - including the only civilian - describe seeing Duggan throw anything away.
2. The police lied when they said that Duggan fired at the police.
1. According to the police, Duggan threw away a gun.
A gun was reportedly found 20 feet away from the taxi, on the other side of a fence.
Some people believe that the gun was planted by the police.
No witnesses - including the only civilian - describe seeing Duggan throw anything away.
2. The police lied when they said that Duggan fired at the police.
Duggan, a father of four, was shot by a police marksman who stopped the taxi in which he was travelling in Tottenham.
"On the evening of August 4th 2011, an unmarked police car rammed a minicab in which Mark Duggan ... was riding...
"On the evening of August 4th 2011, an unmarked police car rammed a minicab in which Mark Duggan ... was riding...
"Mr Duggan leapt out; a police marksman shot him dead.
"The police at first claimed to have killed him after the 29-year-old fired on them.
"The police at first claimed to have killed him after the 29-year-old fired on them.
"That turned out to be untrue."
The Duggan family's solicitor Marcia Willis Stewart said the jury had made a "perverse judgment".
She said: "The jury found that he had no gun in his hand and yet he was gunned down. For us, that's an unlawful killing."
In The Telegraph, on 21 August 2011, Andrew Gilligan relates:
1. Almost none of those charged with rioting in Ealing, Clapham Junction, Enfield and other places comes from the immediate area, court data shows.
Home addresses given by defendants show rioters travelled to London from such places as Tilbury, Maidstone and Winchester.
2. Croydon had rioters from Maidstone, Kent and Cliffe, near Rochester.
The town also offers the clearest evidence of orchestration.
The acting borough police commander, Detective Superintendent Jo Oakley, said that "some [rioters] were minibused in".
The local MP, Gavin Barwell, said: "I have spoken to well into double figures of people who saw people with walkie-talkies and radios directing people around."
Witnesses to the Croydon riot supported these accounts.
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