Police could not locate one but did find a burning barricade of washing machines and furniture looted from a nearby second-hand shop in the

Police could not locate one, but did find a burning barricade of washing machines and furniture, looted from a nearby second-hand shop, in the middle of nearby Harehills Road. A car was also pushed on to the bonfire.After a two-hour stand-off, police sent in eight vanloads of officers in riot gear, backed by dogs and with the force helicopter hovering overhead, to confront about 150 youths. After the street was closed, the gangs moved into the labyrinth of banked terraces leading off it, from which they charged at police, hurled bricks, bottles, stones and wooden crates, and drove cars at speed, spinning them around and setting them on fire.Police vans were bombarded with bricks and bottles Two officers were hit and slightly injured. The trouble was over by 3am, by which time a journalist from The Mirror had been injured by a blow to his face with a police riot shield The journalist has lodged a complaint against the force. Police have so far arrested six local people.In Harehills Road yesterday, tyre marks and blackened areas showed where cars had been raced and burnt out. Carpenters set about boarding up the windows of the Spec launderette, which were broken by the heat from a blazing car.

A spokesman for the franchise said: “[The police] have advised us not to reglaze for a few days because this violence might continue.”At a newsagent run by his uncle, Steve Jhakra said a growing sense of helplessness among the youth of Harehills had bred “a growing gloom, a tension, all this year”. The young were being denied a say in the investment of money in recreation for them, said Mr Jhakra, a field worker for the mental health charity Mind. He, like most other local people yesterday, complained about the police’s strong day-to-day presence and tough action over minor motoring offences. Mr Miah insisted there had been “no need” for his arrest, which had left his wife and children terrified “People are very angry about what happened,” he said. In a statement issued through his MP, George Moody, he said he would take legal steps to defend himself against any criminal charge.West Yorkshire Police sent reinforcements into Harehills last night as 100 youths gathered at the scene of Tuesday’s disturbances.

When officers moved in to break up the group, a few missiles were thrown.. A police inspector was sentenced to 12 years yesterday for “bestial” rapes which left his two victims so depressed that they tried to kill themselves. A police inspector was sentenced to 12 years yesterday for “bestial” rapes which left his two victims so depressed that they tried to kill themselves.
The judge, Lord Dawson, said it was impossible to describe the revulsion felt for Adam Carruthers, who had used his position to earn his victims’ trust. He said Carruthers, 38, was a “total disgrace” to the Dumfries and Galloway police force.Carruthers, of Penpont in Dumfries, was convicted at the High Court in Glasgow last month of raping and indecently assaulting the women.

He showed no emotion as he left the dock at the High Court in Edinburgh after Lord Dawson told him the violent attacks were “bestial and degrading”.The judge reminded Carruthers that he had attacked one woman, known as Mrs X, on her sick bed, after she had tried to commit suicide because of his abuse. He had first attacked her in 1993 when he called at her home to investigate a complaint against her neighbours. After that visit he returned on several occasions and forced her to have sex.Carruthers began the abuse against Mrs Y, aged 43, in June 1993, soon after she became friendly with him and his wife. He made suggestive remarks and attempted to touch her on various occasions, culminating in a brutal rape at her home in October 1996, in which he assaulted her with a police baton.