John duggan jockey biography
Duggan was one of the star apprentices indentured to the late Theo Green that also included champion Sydney premiership riders Ron Quinton, Darren Beadman and Malcolm Johnston..
The man accused of starting the 2011 riots – and what he did next
Did you start the Tottenham riots?
Marcus Knox-Hooke thinks about this for a moment. “I suppose. You could say so. But if they hadn’t shot Mark, there would have been no riots.” He pauses. And then: “It’s not something I’m proud of.” Mark was Mark Duggan, the 29-year-old who was shot dead by police on 4 August 2011 – the spark that lit the flame of the Tottenham riots, which became the London riots and then the 2011 British riots as the violence spread first around the capital and then to cities across the country.
John Duggan was one of the great jockeys of his time and a natural horseman with immense ability,” said Racing NSW's Chief Executive, Peter V'landys.
Five people ended up dead and more than £200m of damage was done to businesses and property. And when the police studied the CCTV footage and pieced together the sequence of events, they alleged that it ultimately led all the way back to one man: Marcus Knox-Hooke.
They accused him of instigating the first act of violence – violence that then spread nationwide – and charged him with eight counts of viole