Overview
- About 200 to 300 young people gathered from roughly 4pm on January 22 after a TikTok invite outside Sutton’s St Nicholas Shopping Centre and along the High Street.
- Officers responded to a disturbance at around 4:42pm and enacted a Section 35 dispersal order covering the town centre to prevent further disorder.
- Social media videos show dense crowds and confrontations with police, while the organiser says officers pinned him to a car and that he was not arrested.
- Police confirmed the event ended without injuries or arrests and rejected widely shared rumours that it was connected to stabbings.
- Sutton’s neighbourhood superintendent and the local MP noted disruption and antisocial behaviour, and police say a repeat event is being planned for Tuesday, January 27.