‘We got failed by the police’: how veterans of Leeds riots stepped in to defuse disorder

A group of Muslim men put themselves in danger to calm unrest in Harehills over children being taken into care

Nadsy Qurban bent his neck to show how the crown of his head was covered in a number of burns, each the size of coins. The smell was like I'm burning some goat or something, like I'm cooking some goat. That's how bad it was," he said.

Needless to say, it hurt. But a week on, the burns he gained while putting out fires during unrest in the Harehills area of Leeds are starting to heal.