Swift Justice Has Quelled UK Unrest, Says Prime Minister

Police remain on high alert after 10 days of unrest and protests sparked by a mass stabbing and inaccurate information about the identity of the attacker.
Swift Justice Has Quelled UK Unrest, Says Prime Minister
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer stands beside CCTV screens in the Metropolitan Police Command and Control Special Operations Room on Aug. 9, 2024. Toby Melville/PA Wire
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UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer credited “swift justice,” including sentencing, with quelling the unrest that has plagued the UK for the past 10 days, on Friday.

The government had promised speed up the court process with extra court sessions as a deterrent, as was done in 2011 in the wake of serious rioting sparked by the shooting of a black man by a police officer in north London.

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