Gavin Grey: UK Correspondent on the 13 year old girl pleading guilty to threatening unlawful violence during a UK protest

A thirteen-year-old girl has pleaded guilty to threatening unlawful violence during a protest in the UK. 

The event took place during a week of unrest over asylum seekers and illegal migrants, and follows two twelve-year-old boys pleading guilty to other offences in a similar riot. 

UK Correspondent Gavin Grey told Ryan Bridge the girl was among a crowd gathered outside a hotel used to house asylum seekers, and was seen punching and kicking at the entrance of the hotel. 

He said that a police officer was injured when disorder broke out at the demonstration, and there was roughly 200 protestors there. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kevin Bray is a UK and Europe correspondent. He's with
US Live Gevin Good morning, Morning Ron. A thirteen year
old girl has pleaded guilty over charges to do with
those riots.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
What for. Yes, this was for a protest at a
hotel housing asylum seekers in Aldershot, to the south and
west of London. It's a former army town, still got
big army presence there and prosecutor said the girl was
among a crowd gathered outside a hotel that was being
used to house asylum seekers and she was seen punching

(00:31):
and kicking at the entrance of the hotel. Of course
the asylum seekers inside, I dare say it, were pretty terrified.
A police officer was injured when disorder broke out at
the demonstration. There were roughly two hundred protesters there dating
back onto the thirty first of July. The girl can't
be named for legal reasons. And at Basingstone Magistrates' Court
she sat with her parents and it was a short

(00:53):
hearing and the prosecutor said that actually, do you know
what if this had been a girl of sentencing age
in other words, not a young girl as she was,
then she would have been recommending a two year custodial sentence. Yesterday, Ryan,
two twelve year old boys, became the youngest to be
convicted following recent disorder.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Given a quick update on the wildfires that are riding
near Ethens and Grace.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah, they've sort of peeped out into smaller hotspots which
are still being fought. But sadly we now know that
there has been at least one victim. It's a sixty
three year old woman whose body was found in a
burnt out factory just on the outskirts of Athens, the
first confirmed victim of the fire that's torn through one
hundred thousand acres of land, leaving dozens more injured. Colleagues

(01:42):
said she'd been too scared to jump from the building
as the flames came close, and she then became trapped
inside and died. So this situation still very very tense
in Greece, particularly around Athens, with the temperatures still very high.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Kevin, thanks so much for that, Kevin Gray, Europe Correspondent.

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