Met releases images of 11 people they want to question after demonstrators stormed Conservative party headquarters

Police investigating the student protests outside the Conservative party headquarters at Millbank in London have released pictures of 11 people they want to question.

The images were captured on CCTV cameras inside the office complex and on its roof as dozens of demonstrators stormed the building last Wednesday.

They were also filmed by officers in the forecourt as more than 1,000 people gathered outside Millbank in protest at a rise in university tuition fees.

Fifty-four people were arrested and released on bail pending further inquiries. Police originally released images of 13 people but requested that the media cease publication of two of the pictures after the individuals in the photographs in question were identified.

Meanwhile, an 18-year-old man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a fire extinguisher was thrown from a roof at police during the riot will be questioned today.

Hampshire police detained the teenager in Southampton yesterday, before transferring him to London, where he spent the night. Officers from the Metropolitan police will today question him.

Police Federation representatives have called for whoever dropped the empty metal fire extinguisher to be charged with attempted murder.

Senior officers said two territorial support group officers were lucky not to have been injured by the extinguisher, which brushed down the back of one and hit the knees of another.

The incident was captured on video during the four-hour standoff last week after a breakaway group of students attacked the Millbank office complex. Up to 50 demonstrators smashed windows, discharged fire extinguishers and threw debris from the roof of the building.

But hundreds of others gathered in a forecourt below, booing the culprit and shouting to others to stop damaging the building and throwing missiles.

The Met said it arrested 33 males and 21 females during sprawling outbreaks of disorder. Of the 54 arrested, 10 were aged under 18 and most of the others were younger than 27.

Scotland Yard last night forced the closure of an anti-police blog that was being used to disseminate advice to protesters pictured at the student fees demonstration. The website Fitwatch was suspended after its hosting company received contact from CO11, the Metropolitan’s public order branch, stating that the blog was “being used to undertake criminal activities”.

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