CCTV ‘exhibits police van following boys on e-bike earlier than deadly crash that sparked Cardiff riots’

A power faces a probe from the police watchdog after CCTV video emerged of a police van following two boys on electrical bicycles simply moments earlier than a deadly crash.

South Wales Police say they weren’t chasing greatest associates Kyrees Sullivan, 15, and Harvey Evans, 16, earlier than the pair had been hit by a bus close to their houses in Ely, Cardiff.

Chief Superintendent Martyn Stone stated the power acquired video of the alleged chase however claimed there have been no police autos on the street final evening on the time of the deadly collision.

Regardless of the denial, the video seems to indicate the boys dashing via Ely on their bike with a marked police van in sizzling pursuit. Harvey’s relations have seen the 48-second clip and consider it’s him on the bike close to the scene of the crash.

The horrific crash sparked avenue riots with automobiles being torched and slabs of concrete thrown. Mr Stone confirmed that 15 cops had required medical consideration following the dysfunction – 11 went to hospital and 4 had been handled on the scene.

The chief superintendent stated arrests had been made and vowed extra would observe.

MailOnline approached South Wales Police to make clear a number of factors, together with the place the collision occurred, who reported it and why officers are excited about monitoring knowledge from police car that was not on the street on the time of the crash. 

Regardless of the massive curiosity within the case, reporters had been instructed the press workplace closed at 5pm, which was earlier than the chief superintendent made his assertion to the press. 

The van was seen driving previous at 5.59pm. South Wales Police say they weren’t chasing greatest associates Kyrees Sullivan, 15, and Harvey Evans, 16, earlier than the pair had been hit by a bus close to their houses in Ely, Cardiff

Greatest associates Kyrees Sullivan, 15, and Harvey Evans, 16, (pictured collectively as children) had been knocked off their bikes by a car close to their houses on Snowden Highway, within the disadvantaged suburb of Ely at round 6pm on Monday

The video was filmed at 17.59pm on Monday evening – police say the deadly crash occurred ‘shortly after 6pm’.

Chief Stone instructed a press convention right this moment: ‘We now have acquired footage that exhibits a police car following a motorbike at simply previous to 6pm.

‘This footage is being recovered as a part of the investigation and can help us in piecing collectively the circumstances main as much as the collision. The households are being stored updated.

‘We will verify the next investigations have been carried out to date and when the collision occurred there have been no police autos on Snowden Highway.

‘A police car on Grand Avenue responded to the collision, attended the realm and officers carried out CPR.’

Police have stated an announcement on whether or not the power had reported itself to the Impartial Workplace for Police Conduct (IOPC) can be disclosed later. 

One girl neighbour stated: ‘I noticed the boys being chased by police shortly earlier than 6pm – they had been enjoying cat and mouse.

‘The boys know these roads very well in order that they had been going across the property in all probability attempting to shake the police off.’

A person who helped to flow into the video on social media added: ‘If the police say they weren’t chasing the boys, what have they bought to say in regards to the video?

‘There’s two of them on the bike simply earlier than six o’clock – there must be two totally different lads on a single bike on the similar time for it to not be Harvey and Kyrees.’

Locals consider the chase began at an space often called Birdies Lane which connects Ely to the neighbouring space of Fairwater.

Earlier a pal of the 2 boys claimed they had been being picked on by a neighborhood officer who had used a police car to ‘knock them off’ the electrical bike they shared.

Different neighbours questioned the security of a police van being utilized in a chase at 6pm on a busy housing property whereas kids are out of college.

Downing Road right this moment stated the carnage was ‘appalling and utterly unacceptable’ (Pictured left, Kyrees Sullivan, whereas proper, Harvey Evans) 

The boy’s deaths triggered an evening of carnage, which Downing Road right this moment condemned as ‘appalling and utterly unacceptable’, including: ‘We stay grateful to the emergency providers and first responders for all their assist to the neighborhood and restoring order.’

In the meantime, talking within the Senedd in regards to the incident, Jane Hutt, minister for social justice in Wales, stated extra arrests are anticipated.

She added: ‘However clearly that is one thing the place our ideas are additionally with the neighborhood, such a heat and robust neighborhood.’

The realm is being cleared up right this moment after as much as 150 thugs – many in balaclavas – torched and smashed automobiles and hurled paving slabs and fireworks at police, injuring 12 officers.   

Grieving mom Belinda Sullivan, 42, referred to as for calm after anger erupted on the streets.

She stated she was stopped from seeing her son’s physique on the housing property after crowds gathered on the street to assault police with petrol bombs and rocks.

She wrote: ‘My son continues to be laying on the ground as a consequence of this riot I’m sat at house coronary heart damaged there are two familys damaged proper now.

‘I simply wish to see my son and I can’t due to this riot which have occurred pls I urge you all to cease and let my son be moved to hospital so I can see him we have to see our sons.’ [sic]

An overturned, burned out automobile right this moment,  after in a single day riots within the Ely space of Cardiff

Locals survey the scene on Snowden Highway within the disadvantaged suburb of Ely

The pair had been identified for driving the electrical bike across the streets though there had been a clampdown on unlawful driving.

Harvey’s godmother stated he had his haircut and had eaten his dinner along with his mom Nadine simply 10 minutes earlier than he died alongside his ‘greatest pal’ whereas driving collectively on a £4,000 Sur-Ron electrical bike.

Bridy Bool stated the teenager ‘cherished motorbikes, bikes and soccer’ – and had accomplished nothing to spark what she described as a police chase.

She stated: ‘The poor boy was laying there till 2.40am – they’ve taken his physique they usually received’t inform anyone the place he’s.

‘We don’t know what hospital he was taken to or nothing. His mom goes to ship herself right into a frenzy as she doesn’t know the place her son is.

She added: ‘They simply left their mums’ homes, that they had simply had their tea.

‘He had simply had his dinner. He had left his mum’s home for 10 minutes and this occurred. He had been house all day along with his mum.

‘He had his haircut, come house, had his meals and this has occurred and he was bare-faced he wasn’t balaclava-ed up.

‘These poor households, they had been bare-faced harmless kids.’

She stated the households had no assist and that household liaison officers nonetheless had not attended the dad and mom’ house due to fears over the riots.

‘They haven’t been instructed nothing of the incident they’ve been left at midnight. The police haven’t confirmed his identification, nobody has been instructed nothing.’

She stated her godson was a ‘typical younger boy who cherished socialising’.

Chatting with MailOnline, associates of the 2 boys stated they had been ‘bike heads’ who had grown up collectively on the powerful property within the west of Cardiff (Pictured: Harvey Evans) 

Violence rapidly erupted following false social media rumours of a police chase being behind the deaths, with riot officers despatched in to quell the disturbance and make arrests. (Pictured: Kyrees Jordan Sullivan along with his mom Belinda)

She added: ‘He was a social butterfly, cherished his motorbikes, cherished bikes, cherished his soccer. He was a typical 15-year-old.’

Chatting with MailOnline, associates of the 2 boys stated they had been ‘bike heads’ who had grown up collectively on the powerful property within the west of Cardiff.

One teenager stated the pair had been concerned in incidents with a neighborhood police officer who was choosing on them.

John Silver, 19, stated: ‘Kyrees and Harvey had been greatest associates, they grew up collectively and all the time had bikes.

‘They began with cycles however they had been on electrical bikes once they had been killed, simply having fun with themselves.

‘They’re authorized however the police don’t just like the boys on them. One officer specifically would attempt to run them off the street at any time when he noticed them.

‘The police say they weren’t chasing the boys but when that officer was within the space they’d wish to stay away from him.’

Mr Silver stated the boys cherished to trip off-road motorbikes on mud tracks alongside the Ely property.

He added: ‘They had been motorbike-heads however used electrical bikes on the roads round their houses. They each had one.

‘They’re authorized, fairly secure and don’t give off emissions. I don’t know why the police suppose they’re an issue.

‘Kyrees and Harvey had been simply younger lads having some enjoyable on their bikes. They had been good youngsters and never not inflicting any hurt.’

Cardiff council staff attempt to sweep up the mess left by yobs 

One employee clears bricks and paving slabs that had been hurled at police

He added: ‘It was an electrical bike, they typically rode it collectively. I don’t know who it belonged to but it surely seemed like a regular bike with pedals but it surely had an electrical motor on it.’ 

One other Ely teenager, who didn’t wish to be named, stated: ‘Folks had been saying the boys had been being chased however I don’t suppose the police had been after them.

‘It’s extra that Kyrees and Harvey all the time have a watch out for the police as a result of they’ve been intentionally knocked off their bikes by them previously.

‘It went out on social media that the boys had been being chased and all of it kicked off from there.’  

Plaid Cymru Senedd member for South Wales Central, Heledd Fychan, stated: ‘My ideas exit to the households of each youngsters that tragically misplaced their lives final evening, and my ideas are with the entire neighborhood as they rebuild.

‘There should now be a full investigation to know how this tragic incident led to the violence that adopted to make sure peace is restored and that this by no means occurs once more.’

One girl stated that the realm seemed like a ‘warzone’ right this moment, as groups of council staff tried to clear the street of particles.