Mother of 12-year-old Manchester rioter told to pay £1,200 after missing hearing

Boy given referral order for involvement in two incidents with his mother also ordered to attend parenting course A 12-year-old boy who was involved in two separate incidents of rioting told a court "I want to say sorry", as he was handed a referral order with intensive supervision. His mother, who had been on holiday in Ibiza last week when her son was due to be sentenced, said: "It wasn't put to me how much I actually needed to be there," and that she had thought her son, who was accompanied b...