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Harehills, Leicester and the other riots we don’t talk about

This week marks the first anniversary of the ferocious stabbing spree at a dance class in the Merseyside town of Southport, in which three little girls were murdered by teenager Axel Rudakubana. In the days that followed, riots rocked Southport and other towns across England, fuelled by false claims that the perpetrator was an illegal Muslim migrant. More than 1,500 arrests were made and hundreds were imprisoned.

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