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Authorities said computer equipment linking the teen to the hack attack was removed from the suspect’s home Friday. The teen lives near Liverpool. British officials credited the FBI with cracking the case.

THIS is Pink Floyd star David Gilmour's yob son Charlie menacingly tossing a rock in the air during Thursday's student riots.

An Iraqi-born yob who spat on a World War II hero's medals on Remembrance Day yesterday escaped jail. Serwan Abdullah, 23, targeted Timothy House while he was wearing his late grandfather’s honours after a commemorative parade. Mr House, 44, who was recovering from a broken hip and was also looking after a 91-year-old wheelchair-bound veteran when the attack happened, said he was left ‘outraged and very angry’. Abdullah showed no remorse and told officers he had done ‘nothing wrong’ adding: ‘F*** him and f*** his medals.’ The medals Mr House was wearing were awarded to former paratrooper Company Sgt Major...

Danny Boyes was left with a tattooed face after a drunken prank – and now fears the artwork is putting the brakes on his dream job. The 22-year-old harbours ambitions to work in the funeral business, but thinks potential employers are being putting off by the Chinese symbols on his left cheek. Danny, of Southwick, bought the three-inch symbols after a drunken night of dares and has regretted the move ever since. Now he is in the process of having his body art removed in the hope of bagging a job with a funeral director. The dad-of-one said: "I regretted...

AVID Cameron has called for a revived form of National Service to steer out-of-control youths back on the straight and narrow, in the wake of the murder of Garry Newlove. Compulsory military conscription, which ended in Britain in 1960, gave young people a feeling of identity with their country, Mr Cameron said The Conservative leader said Britain's streets had been "lost" to thugs, as he pointed to the killing of an innocent father of three by a teenage gang. There was a need for "big social, cultural and political change" to tackle the problem of social disorder", he said. While...

When she spotted yobs vandalising a war memorial garden, Julie Lake sprang into action. As the daughter of a Second World War RAF pilot – and granddaughter of one of the fallen in the 1914-18 war – she felt it was her duty to intervene. But, after giving the main culprit a talking- to and a 'cuff round the ear', she finds herself facing the prospect of being arrested for assault. Yesterday Mrs Lake accused police of failing to follow up her complaints about graffiti and other hooliganism in the memorial garden. "The memorial is a sacred place – it's...

To read the newspapers this week was to wonder afresh what kind of country Britain has become and what kind of people we have turned into. As 11-year-old Rhys Jones innocently kicked a football round the carpark of a Liverpool pub on Wednesday evening, he was shot in the neck by a teenager in a hoodie top, who then fled the scene on a BMX bike. Rhys died there in the car park, cradled in the arms of his mother, Melanie. Unsafe streets: Britain is plagued by a growing yob culture Especially now, as children prepare to go back to...

Man Fathers 7 Children From 7 Women In 7 Years Englishman Pays No Child Support, Reports Claim July 3, 2006 A 21-year-old English man has fathered six children by six girlfriends and is about to father a seventh by another woman, according to British press reports. Keith MacDonald, who lives on welfare and has not paid child support for any of the children, fathered his first child at the age of 15, The Sun and other newspapers reported over the weekend. His case, involving seven children from seven women in seven years, has attracted international media attention. MacDonald and the...

Unruly home owners face eviction Launching a barrage of measures to combat yobbish behaviour, he said the Government was consulting on a new "house closure order" to bring relief to those suffering from the "misery" of nuisance neighbours. This included "noise, constant visitors at all hours, rubbish and vandalism". It would empower the authorities in England and Wales to seal a property for up to three months, and evicted families would be rehoused in special residential units. Hazel Blears, the Home Office minister, confirmed the measures would apply to people with mortgages or who owned their homes outright, and would...

11/11/2005 - Dad of 15 jailed for shop raid Robber threatened trader with fake gun A DRUG dealing father of 15 children who robbed and threatened a 64-year-old shop worker with a fake gun, has been thrown behind bars. Tony Richards, from Coley Park, grabbed cash and gold jewellery from pensioner Margaret Chede’s Whitley Street shop in Reading on April 23. Reading Crown Court heard the 55-year-old went into Sphere Communications at 10am, shortly after Mrs Chede opened up, and pointed the weapon at her, saying: “Give me all the money you have here.” Unsatisfied with the change she handed...

Torture girl, 16, led mob Leader ... Ainsley       By ANDY RUSSELL THIS 16-year-old was exposed yesterday as the leader of a vicious, all-girl torture gang. Bianca Ainsley headed the mob of up to 50 youngsters who beat up and terrorised other girls. Last night she was handed a five-year anti-social-behaviour order — and was warned she faced the same period in prison if she breached its terms. The Asbo was sought by council officials after brunette Ainsley was heard bragging about hurting her victims.   Fear ... Ainsley and her gang terrorised Manchester streets   She was also...

Hats off for British delinquent Fri May 27, 1:22 PM ET LONDON (AFP) - A British juvenile delinquent who terrorized his neighbors with a chain saw was banned from wearing a cap or hooded sweatshirt for five years. Authorities slapped the Anti Social Behaviour Order on 16-year-old Dale Carroll of Cheetham, a suburb of Manchester, northwest England, after he was caught on a video surveillance camera taking a chain saw to a metal post. Carroll, known as "Elms" to his friends, then threatened a passing cyclist with the chain saw. It was the first time an Anti Social Behaviour Order,...

The First Family Roger Ebert: 'Give her dad credit for a 'yob' well-done' Posted on Wednesday, July 25 @ 09:43:56 EDT/span> By Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times The British have a useful word, "yob," which the dictionary defines as an "uncouth, ignorant, loutish youth." The word is traditionally applied to males, but in these liberated times can also refer to females, and might have been in use last week at Buckingham Palace when Barbara Bush, the president's daughter, appeared for lunch wearing denims. But of course I'm talking about the president's daughter. The other Barbara Bush, the president's mother, would...