The Great Riot of Yarmouth
In August 2007 Great Yarmouth police closed down an unauthorised “rave” in a warehouse in Harfrey industrial estate after a routine stop on a van close by revealed sound equipment. The Police response to this party was not taken very well by the revellers who responded by besieging the local police station. The 100-strong mob threw beer bottles at officers and tried to storm the station to rescue the confiscated sound system.
As only a handful of officers were in the station at the time, reinforcements had to be brought in from Essex, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.
After eventually being repelled, the mob which by this time had grown to 300 barricaded itself into a factory yard where it took 100 officers in riot gear using CS gas and dogs to remove them. Two police cars were damaged in the attack and one police officer was left with a bleeding head wound after one young “raver” lobbed a can at his head.
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