TWO 12-year-old boys thought to be the UK’s youngest rioters are facing jail with one of the yobs caught hurling rocks on separate days.
One of the schoolboys attacked police and a bus full of passengers before joining a second riot three days later.
The youngster — branded Britain’s worst rioter — was seen handing rocks to yobs outside a hotel housing asylum seekers and hurling stones at cops.
He also stood in front of a bus to get it to stop and attacked it as it drove past.
Three days later, he was seen wearing a balaclava while throwing more objects at officers and joining looters. District Judge Joanne Hirst told him he would face “consequences”.
And she told his mum: “He’s more involved in the violence and disorder than any other defendant I’ve seen coming through these courts, adult or child.”
Speaking to the boy at Manchester magistrates’ court, she said: “You have gone out not once but twice.
“You are the first person I have dealt with to have been involved in two. It’s time to stop letting your mum down now.
“You are to do one thing — do as you’re told.”
He joined the Manchester riot on July 31 — and on August 3 was in more city centre disorder.
CCTV caught him smashing a vape shop’s windows and with a crowd of looters outside a Sainsbury’s before throwing a missile at cops.
His lawyer said the lad accepted “full responsibility” and is “absolutely ashamed”.
His tearful mum told the court she was “very worried” about his behaviour.
The boy was remanded to local authority care until sentencing on September 2.
Meanwhile, one 12-year-old boy who cannot be named for legal reasons, was caught on CCTV throwing an object at police during unrest in Southport.
He admitted violent disorder at Liverpool Youth Court.
