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This is a global player original podcast. In your case, John O'Malley, for the offence of violent disorder, the sentence is 32 months imprisonment. In your case, William Nelson Morgan, for the offence of violent disorder,

the sentence is also 32 months imprisonment. That sentence intended to reflect that offence

and the associated offence of possessing an offensive weapon.

The streets of Britain may have been mercifully quiet last night,

but the wheels of justice are still turning on those who have rioted. Those two people,

John O'Malley, who was 43, and William Morgan, who's 69 and had no previous convictions,

can now look forward to 32 months in prison for their part in the riots that have swept Britain over the past 10 days.

Decent people across Britain will be relieved today that the proposed riots disorder that we all thought might happen,

perhaps a hundred sites strong across the country, didn't happen. Had it done so, this would have been a summer of infamy, a week where we'd had the worst far-right extremist riots that we'd seen for decades.

Why didn't it happen? And has the threat now finally gone away? Welcome to the

newsagents. The newsagents. It's John. It's Lewis. And a little bit later on, we're going

to be talking to the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, about the peaceful night that we've had,

whether the danger has passed,

the challenge to politicians to meet some of the concerns of people who do have legitimate anxieties, but also he talked personally about the impact that these routes have had upon

his own family.

But first, we should discuss the night that was, or rather the kind of the night that wasn't,

because we had in the media and across the country as well, the government and the police,

certainly, who were well prepared for it, had anticipated partly through the interception of lots of kind of telegram chats, actually very well signposted, kind of lists of events that were supposed to take place, as I say, perhaps as many as 100 strong across the country, had expected perhaps the worst night of disorder year. And in the main, apart from a few scuffles here and there, it didn't happen. And it is interesting to sort of think about why that might have been.

And I think, I mean, I was in Blackpool last night,

partly because we thought this was going to be one of the sites of disorder.

There was an immigration center there.

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