>Jordan Briggs, police picture inset, admitted stealing bath bombs from Lush in Hull city centre during scenes of violent disorder last August

> One of the troublemakers who joined in scenes "resembling a war zone" during rioting and looting in Hull city centre last summer has told a court: "I lost my head."

Jordan Briggs had been drinking all morning when he decided to go and have a look at what was happening and – as an "act of idiocy" – join in the serious disturbances. He was one of many who raided the Lush store and he stole four boxes of bath bombs, Hull Crown Court heard.

>He was pushing a commercial waste bin, with smoke coming from it, towards police. "Lit waste bins were being used as burning missiles and were being pushed towards officers," said Miss Rapin.