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You will be refused bail even if you only watched riots from the sidelines, judge warns

A judge has warned that anybody present at a riot will be remanded in custody, even if they were only a “curious observer”.

District Judge Francis Rafferty said that someone’s presence at a riot makes them involved in the riot as he refused two bail applications.

The judge spoke as four men appeared in Belfast magistrates’ court charged in relation to recent disorder in the city.

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