there may not have been as many people present, but there was looting of commercial premises —— mac waltons the wanton attempt to destroy the local library and community hub, and many more fireworks were thrown at the police. in your case, there was a serious aggravating factor that you were in possession of a weapon, the cosh, which i'm sure that you had with you to use to cause injury if the opportunity should arise. it was visible when you were confronting the officers at a time when there was serious public disorder. that factor, together with the other aggravating factors again it justifies a the other aggravating factors again itjustifies a significant upward adjustment from the starting point, and because of the factor of that weapon, in myjudgment, it takes your offending beyond the top of that relevant bracket. because i am taking the weapon events into account in that way, the sentence for that offence will be ordered to run concurrently rather than it consecutively as might otherwise have been the case. in terms of mitigation, you have no previous convictions at all, and it is v