LONDON (Reuters) - Courts around Britain were struggling on Thursday to cope with a huge influx of people arrested during this week's riots, including a millionaire's daughter, a charity worker and a woman who handed herself in after suffering pangs of guilt.
At Westminster magistrates' court, police vans queued round the block and spectators jostled for places as a seemingly endless procession of defendants trooped through the dock.
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