A total of nine people have been arrested so far over the riots which followed a road crash which killed two teenage boys in Cardiff, South Wales Police has said.
Four teenagers were arrested around the time of the disorder, which saw vehicles set alight and clashes with riot police, while a further five – aged between 16 and 29 – were detained early on Thursday morning and are being held in custody on suspicion of riot, the force said.
It came as the mother of one of the teenagers who died in the e-bike crash in Ely hit out at South Wales Police, alleging that they “killed” her son, 16-year-old Kyrees Sullivan, who was killed in the collision along with his best friend Harvey Evans, 15.
The force has said that a police van seen behind the two teenagers was half a mile away when that crash happened, and maintained there was no police vehicle on the road of the crash at the time.
