Three Men Plead Guilty to Violent Disorder After Southampton Protests

Three men have pleaded guilty to violent disorder following protests in Southampton after the murder of Henry Nowak. Connor Bishop, 24, Reece Robinson, 21, and Noah Etherington, 18, all admitted to the charge during magistrates' court hearings in Southampton and Portsmouth. They had been arrested after protests on Tuesday night that followed the release of police bodycam footage showing 18-year-old Nowak being placed in handcuffs after he had been stabbed by 23-year-old killer Vickrum Digwa. Bishop, from Southampton, and Robinson and Etherington, both from Havant, have been remanded in custody to be sentenced at Southampton Crown Court on Monday. Prosecutor Kevin Lucie told Southampton Magistrates' Court that CCTV footage showed Bishop "picking up and throwing a traffic cone" towards police. Portsmouth Magistrates' heard that Etherington was captured in multiple clips near the police line and threw a brick in the direction of officers. Daniel Frost, 44, of Southampton, pleaded guilty on Thursday to violent disorder and possessing a dog lead with a metal carabiner as an offensive weapon following the protests. A second man, 50-year-old Matt Styler, of Gosport, pleaded not guilty to assaulting a police officer. The treatment of Nowak, from Chafford Hundred in Essex, triggered a political row, with the prime minister urging politicians to heed the teenager's relatives' calls not to use the case "to cause disturbances".