London riots

The Mayor of London says he saved taxpayers millions by buying three German water cannon – but the Home Secretary says difficult issues around their use still “need to be considered properly.”

A report into the police handling of the investigation into a triple murder during riots in Birmingham in 2011 finds the victims’ families “understandably feel failed by the system they trusted”.

Assistant Chief Constable Gary Cann speaks to Cathy Newman in the Channel 4 News studio as a report criticises failings in his force’s investigation into the deaths of three men during the 2011 riots.

Bernard Hogan-Howe, Met police chief, admits that black people have a bad experience with the police. He is asked if he owes the Duggans an apology, and whether Londoners can trust the police.

As a community activist tells Channel 4 News he was stopped and searched on his way to the interview, Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley speaks about the Duggan verdict.

David Lammy, MP for Tottenham, says that the verdict in the Mark Duggan case raises a number of important questions, saying it is “unusual” for a jury to come to the conclusion it has.

An inquest jury considering the death of Mark Duggan, whose killing by police sparked widespread riots in England in the summer of 2011, decides he was lawfully killed.

A man is found guilty of supplying Mark Duggan with a gun just before he was shot dead by police, sparking the 2011 riots. Channel 4 News has obtained exclusive footage of attempts to keep him alive.

The coalition is expected to pump more money into tackling youth violence as part of a wider push to stamp out gang and knife crime, the home secretary reveals.

Thirteen members of rival gangs, who brokered a truce to join forces, face up to six years in prison after being convicted of large-scale involvement in the London riots.

The arrests of more than 200 leaders of London street gangs in the wake of last year’s riots has led to an increase in “chaos, violence and anarchy” there, a report claims.

A conman who posed as a Metropolitan police inspector during last year’s Tottenham riots is jailed for five years.

The riots that spread across England in 2011 lasted a few days but some communities suffered lasting damage. However, the resulting clean-up fostered a community spirit that is still present now.

Channel 4 News revisits four of the worst-hit parts of London to see how they have recovered since last year’s riots. See the before/after photos here. Roll your mouse over the images.

A year on from the riots, parts of Tottenham remain demolished. But as policy makers and police try to fathom the anarchic violence, residents are attempting to piece their lives back together.