London riots looter in wheelchair jailed

A looter in a wheelchair who made off with a television from a ransacked shop has been jailed for a year.

David Christopher Knott, 18, from Eltham, south-east London, had a broken leg when rioting swept the capital in August.



CCTV captured Knott waiting by Argos in Powis Street, Woolwich, in his wheelchair. A man placed a TV on his lap before wheeling him away.

Knott pleaded guilty to handling stolen goods at Inner London Crown Court. He was also convicted of assault with intent to commit robbery and a separate offence of taking a vehicle without consent, for which he received a two month concurrent sentence.