The tip off that 'started' the Leeds riots: Four Romanian Roma children were taken into care by police over fears they would leave Britain - before rundown suburb of city burned

Four children forcibly taken into care by police in a harrowing incident which triggered hours of rioting in Leeds last week were seized after a tip-off that they were being taken abroad, it emerged today. Large crowds of people gathered in the Harehills area of Leeds on Thursday night, where thugs overturned and smashed up a police car with scooters, prams and bikes The scene around the Harehills area of Leeds where vehicles were set on fire on July 18 A 2,000 strong mob broke out in Harehills, Leeds after children from a Roma family were taken from their terraced home by police A double decker bus was left a twisted and smouldering wreck after it was set alight on Thursday last week Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer condemned the disorder as 'shocking and disgraceful', while Home Secretary Yvette Cooper insisted police would have her full backing to take swift and decisive action against the rioters. A man throws an item onto a fire during unrest in Harehills, Leeds, on July 18 Disorder broke out in Harehills, Leeds, as thugs set multiple fires during a riot on Thursday Police at the scene in Harehills on Thursday when multiple fires were set and a police car was overturned Relatives listened to proceedings via an interpreter, with the children's mother tapping her heart after hearing they could go back to live with their uncle. Firefighters douse a fire, set in the a road in the Harehills area of Leeds on Thursday night Police tape cordons off the remains of a burnt out bus after civil disturbance on July 19 Police officers standing by a still smoking bus on Friday after the night of violence in Harehills A JCB clearing the remains of a burnt out bus, which was cordoned off by police in Harehills on July 19 Local people watch the clean up as police patrol Harehills neighbourhood on July 19 Police patrolled Harehills on Friday as locals continued to take to the streets and clean up in the aftermath of the riots According to the Mirror, the summary stated: 'Medical opinion is that it is likely that the injury was caused by blunt force trauma or a fall from height, rendering the family's explanation implausible.'