Like mother like daughter: Hapless family members who went looting together are locked up together

Surrounded by screaming rioters and in the grip of a mob mentality, this was the moment a mother and daughter were caught on camera preparing to take part looting which left a shopkeeper with just 25p to his name.


Clarice Ali, 38, was filmed gesturing obscenely at a television camera seconds before she and her 20-year-old daughter Chantelle Dixon-Ali stormed a convenience store which was ripped apart in a single night of violence during the London riots.

In what became one of the enduring images of the looting, grocer Siva Kandiah was pictured in tears with only 25p left in his pocket after rioters plundered his convenience store in Hackney, East London before setting it ablaze on August 8.     More