AN 11-year-old boy has been charged with a number of offences relating to disorder in Belfast in July.
The charges include riot, three counts of possessing petrol bombs in suspicious circumstances, and possessing an offensive weapon in a public place.
He has also been charged with throwing petrol bombs and causing an explosion likely to endanger life or cause serious injury to property in the Broadway area of south Belfast on Monday 15 July which is not linked to recent disorder.
He is due to appear before Belfast Youth Court on Friday 6 September.
In England meanwhile two 12-year-old boys have been convicted in connection with the country-wide public disorder.
One of the youths was convicted on Monday at Manchester Magistrates’ Court after admitting two charges of violent disorder.
The court heard the youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was part of a group that gathered on July 31 outside a Holiday Inn hotel housing asylum seekers.
Prosecutors said the boy was “filmed by police kicking the front window of a vape shop” and was also seen kicking a bus as it drove past him.
The other 12-year-old youth admitted a charge of violent disorder at Liverpool Youth Court.
Neither youth can be named for legal reasons.
It is understood the pair are the youngest people to be convicted of a criminal offence in relation to the recent disorder.
