James Nelson was sentenced to a two-month jail term.
After wearing a pink balaclava to avoid being identified, a teenager has been sentenced to jail for damaging two police cars during the disorderly incident in the town center of Bolton.
James Nelson, an 18-year-old from Bolton, admitted to committing criminal damage during the disorder in Bolton on Sunday (August 4).
During the proceedings at Manchester Magistrates' Court, prosecutor John Potter mentioned that two police vehicles, a Ford Focus and a Peugeot, were situated in the Morrison car park on Black Horse Street.
“On the first vehicle, there was significant damage to the windscreen, the side windows were smashed and the driver's side wing mirror was also damaged. On the second vehicle, the back window was smashed and the near side window was smashed, with significant damage to the front window,” he said.
It was reported that he had no prior criminal record.
Mitigating, Gabriella Black said her client suffers from ADHD and issues with anger for which he was prescribed medication that he had ‘not been taking’.
“This was in the context of being involved in a situation with a group of people,” she said. Nelson lives with his grandparents and was said to have acted ‘completely out of character’. The court heard that he was wearing a pink balaclava at the time.
"Why did he attend wearing a pink balaclava?," District Judge Hurst asked. "I'm not sure," Miss Black said.
“He was trying to evade identification, should he be involved in violence?,” District Judge Hirst said.
“He accepts he was involved in this violence,” Ms Black said. “He brought a pink balaclava, though he was clearly identified by witnesses. He was not thinking properly, he was immature and naive to the gravity of the consequences of the offences he committed.”
Jailing him for two months, DJ Hirst said: “You attended that violence with the intent of causing trouble. You were involved in the appalling and shameful violent disorder that impacted not just the national community, but in particular the Bolton community.
“I accept you may have difficulties but I understand that everyone involved in that violence has difficulties.”
She added that an immediate custodial sentence would ‘deter others from damaging police vehicles’. Nelson, of Victoria Road, was also ordered to pay £4,999 compensation.
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