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Moment mother, 51, and daughter, 24, smash up car while on dog walk during riots as they are locked up for more than three years in total

R.Campbell22 min ago
This is the moment a mother and daughter smashed up a car while out on a family dog walk during the riots in Middlesbrough last month.

Amanda Walton, 51, was caught on CCTV throwing a missile, damaging a car wing mirror and rummaging through a bin, Teesside Crown Court heard.

While footage showed her daughter Megan Davison, 24, jumping up and down on a car roof, smashing windows and sticking her finger up at a police officer, prosecutors said.

The pair admitted violent disorder and were jailed for more than three years in total at Teesside Crown Court today.

Walton was sentenced to 22 months by Judge Francis Laird KC while her daughter received a 20-month sentence.

The court heard that Walton brought her chow chow to the riot in Middlesbrough on August 4 and a video showed both women holding the pet's lead as the mob made its way up Parliament Street.

Davison's partner, Jake Wray, is awaiting sentence after also admitting violent disorder, having stopped cars at a junction to challenge drivers if they were 'white' or 'English'.

Walton handed herself in after police circulated images of the trouble while Davison, a mother-of-two, was arrested at her home.

Jon Harley, defending Davison, said she had taken a cocktail of drink and drugs the night before following a break-up, and was still intoxicated during the march.

'She allowed herself to be swept up and behaved in a very stupid manner,' he said.

Gary Wood, defending Walton, said she was at the protest out of concern for her daughter.

'She hadn't planned to be involved, in fact she is present in the street with her dog,' he said.

The judge accepted that neither woman was motivated by racist ideology and that both were remorseful.

Wray is due to be sentenced next week.

It comes as a 21-year-old mother who took her baby to an asylum hotel riot in a pram has been spared jail.

Nevey Smith from Oldham threw water at police officers outside the Holiday Inn in Newton Heath, Manchester, on July 31.

Manchester Crown Court heard how the protest had been planned on Facebook earlier that day and during the disorder missiles were thrown at police officers, including glass bottles, bricks and eggs.

One hotel resident was injured after glass was thrown at him, causing cuts to his arm, and while 'he'd come to the country to feel safe' he no longer did so.

A bus was attacked and damaged, forcing passengers to flee, and one rioter then tried to force his way on board.

Smith was captured on CCTV throwing a liquid at police and a hotel resident who was being escorted through the grounds.

Other photographs showed her pushing her child in the pram as the riot unfolded.

Smith was arrested after later handing herself in at a police station.

She previously admitted a charge of violent disorder when she appeared before magistrates in August and said she was 'deeply sorry' for her actions.

Judge Patrick Field KC, sentencing her at Manchester Crown Court on Monday, said: 'You chose to join (the disorder) notwithstanding that you had your 20-month-old child in a pushchair.

'What on earth were you thinking? I doubt you had his safety in mind.'

Smith was handed a community order and made to attend reviews at a women's problem-solving court, and carry out 100 hours of unpaid work.

Meanwhile a 29-year-old man who rocked a police van with officers inside during a riot in Rotherham has been jailed for two years and ten months.

Ross Hart, 29, from Wombwell, South Yorkshire, pleaded guilty to violent disorder after the unrest at a hotel housing asylum seekers on August 4.

Sheffield Crown Court heard Hart was also seen attacking an air conditioning unit at the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers, South Yorkshire, and was part of a group taunting police.

Whereas, Daniel Kendall, 21, was jailed for two years and four months for violent disorder after being filmed picking up debris from the road and throwing it at police.

The court heard he was an 'immature' and 'somewhat vulnerable' young man who had been 'fed misinformation'.

Kendall, of Wath-upon-Dearne, South Yorkshire pleaded guilty to violent disorder at an earlier hearing. He has no previous convictions.

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