A warehouseman was cautioned in court on Tuesday 2 for attacking riot police in the capital's May Day riots.

Brendan Farnan, 30, of Lansbury Drive, Hayes, received a 14 day prison sentence for using threatening and abusive words towards the police during the anti-capitalist riots in Trafalgar Square at around 8.30pm.

Prosecutor Regina Naughton alleged Farnan and his co-defendant Alan McAlavey of Rochester in Kent walked towards a police cordon and punched and kicked police shields.

They were warned to move on but refused and were arrested.

Farnan's 14 day sentence was suspended by magistrate Rosamond Keating for one year because of his previous good character. He was among nine men and a woman who appeared at Horseferry Road Magistrates Court in central London for their alleged involvement in the riots, in which nine police officers and twelve civilians were injured.