British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged yesterday to restore order, recalling Parliament on Thursday in response to the "sickening scenes", which prompted unrest in other cities.
Copycat riots broke out in other flashpoints areas on Sunday, and by Monday night they had spread across the city, from the wealthy districts of Notting Hill and Clapham, inner-city Peckham and Hackney, and suburban Croydon and Ealing.
Police across England are gearing up after trouble spread to Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool and Nottingham.
Some 16,000 police officers are policing London's streets in a bid to prevent a fourth night of rioting.
Cameron condemned the "sickening scenes of people looting, vandalising, thieving, robbing".
"You will feel the full force of the law. And if you are old enough to commit these crimes, you are old enough to face the punishment," he said to rioters.
The Metropolitan force has released what it says will be the "first of many" CCTV images of rioting suspects, while 32 people who were among the first to be charged in connection to the violence have appeared in court.
So far 525 people have been arrested and more than 100 people being charged in connection with violence in the capital.
Meanwhile, Scotland Yard said a 26-year-old man found shot in a car in Croydon, amid rioting in the south London town, had died in hospital.
The unrest is the worst in British history since the 1980s and has raised questions about security in London ahead of the Olympic Games which take place in the east of the capital in a year's time.
Source : The Daily Star
