In Charlton, only a mile down the road, a retail park was targeted and high-value goods worth hundreds of thousands of pounds were stolen.
However, only one of those charged comes from the area or even the local borough. The others are from a much wider swathe of south-east London and as far afield as Orpington, Kent, the court data shows.
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The local MP, Gavin Barwell, said: “I have spoken to well into double figures of people who saw people with walkie-talkies and radios directing people around.”
Witnesses to the Croydon riot supported these accounts.
