Two teenage Londoners yesterday pleaded guilty to using threatening or unlawful violence at the Leeds Festival last August. They were being tried for their part in the riots that followed the finale of the festival at the Temple Newsham site in the Yorkshire city. According to the NME prosecutor Helen Gaunt described the festival site as "a war zone" during the rampage, reporting that toilets and a portable building were burned to the ground. Stuart Gunn and Nicolas Jones will return to Leeds Crown Court at a later date to be sentenced.
Jan 16, 2003
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Leeds rioters in court
Two teenagers have pleaded guilty to violence during the riots that followed the Leeds Festival finale last August and will be sentenced later.