Not So Usual Suspects
More revealing details about the London 'student rioters' - continues to spill out via the press.
An odd bunch, really - not the kind of people you'd expect to find - they're certainly not from the ranks of the poor, downtrodden and dispossessed.
Luke Cooper - 26 year old tutor in international studies at the University of Sussex - not a student at all, of course - and presumably well paid for his 'horny handed' toils in higher education.
Lewis Evans - a 17 year old school boy who was pictured hurling a chair through a plate glass window at Millbank Tower - aspirations unknown and unreported.
Clare Solomon - 37 year old president of the University of London Union - who has held various university union positions for the past seven years - apparently .
Tanzil Chowdhury - 22 year old with a degree in law and politics from Manchester University - former grammar schoolboy from Skipton, North Yorkshire.
Bryan Simpson - 22 year old student activist at the University of Strathclyde and a member of the Stop the War Coalition - doesn't pay up front fees of course as a Scottish student.
Mohammad Zain Kukaswadia - 19 year old student from Karachi, Pakistan - former public schoolboy who came to Britain last year to read economics at Essex University.
Simon Devey-Smith - a 51 year old grandfather was also the first person to appear in court - which heard that heard he lived in Lyon in France with his wife and children.
Liv Thurley - 18 year old schoolgirl who skipped lessons to join the march and has applied to study History of Art at Oxford University.
Miss Thurley told the newspapers: ‘Our parents are totally behind us as they were doing this in the sixties. We want our education for free as I can’t afford £9,000 a year.’
But last night Miss Thurley's dad Kevin, 56, denied that he had ever taken part in a student protest and blamed her ‘socialist’ school – Woodhouse College – for encouraging her to attend.
Outside his £800,000 home in Muswell Hill, he said: ‘I wasn’t involved in student protests – I was far too young at the time! – and I don’t condone violence. The protest was just an excuse for the kids to miss school.’
So, there you have it - not quite the stuff the revolution is made of - more like a bunch of middle class whingers - with more time on their hands than they know what to do with.
Wonder what the grandad was doing there though - someone should tell his wife in Lyon?
An odd bunch, really - not the kind of people you'd expect to find - they're certainly not from the ranks of the poor, downtrodden and dispossessed.
Luke Cooper - 26 year old tutor in international studies at the University of Sussex - not a student at all, of course - and presumably well paid for his 'horny handed' toils in higher education.
Lewis Evans - a 17 year old school boy who was pictured hurling a chair through a plate glass window at Millbank Tower - aspirations unknown and unreported.
Clare Solomon - 37 year old president of the University of London Union - who has held various university union positions for the past seven years - apparently .
Tanzil Chowdhury - 22 year old with a degree in law and politics from Manchester University - former grammar schoolboy from Skipton, North Yorkshire.
Bryan Simpson - 22 year old student activist at the University of Strathclyde and a member of the Stop the War Coalition - doesn't pay up front fees of course as a Scottish student.
Mohammad Zain Kukaswadia - 19 year old student from Karachi, Pakistan - former public schoolboy who came to Britain last year to read economics at Essex University.
Simon Devey-Smith - a 51 year old grandfather was also the first person to appear in court - which heard that heard he lived in Lyon in France with his wife and children.
Liv Thurley - 18 year old schoolgirl who skipped lessons to join the march and has applied to study History of Art at Oxford University.
Miss Thurley told the newspapers: ‘Our parents are totally behind us as they were doing this in the sixties. We want our education for free as I can’t afford £9,000 a year.’
But last night Miss Thurley's dad Kevin, 56, denied that he had ever taken part in a student protest and blamed her ‘socialist’ school – Woodhouse College – for encouraging her to attend.
Outside his £800,000 home in Muswell Hill, he said: ‘I wasn’t involved in student protests – I was far too young at the time! – and I don’t condone violence. The protest was just an excuse for the kids to miss school.’
So, there you have it - not quite the stuff the revolution is made of - more like a bunch of middle class whingers - with more time on their hands than they know what to do with.
Wonder what the grandad was doing there though - someone should tell his wife in Lyon?
