The BBC's Danny Savage says a man has appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court charged with robbing an injured student
Courts in London and Manchester have opened over the weekend as the number of people charged for riot-related offences reaches more than 1,000.
Those in court include a man charged with mugging a Malaysian student and a man with 21 previous court appearances.
A total of 2,275 people have been arrested, and extra police numbers are being maintained over the weekend.
Meanwhile, a vigil is taking place in memory of a man attacked during rioting in Ealing on Monday night.
Sixty-eight year-old Richard Bowes died in hospital just before midnight on Thursday.
Scotland Yard said a man has been arrested on suspicion of his murder, rioting and carrying out three burglaries.
In other developments related to last week's rioting in London, the East and West Midlands, Manchester, Liverpool and Gloucester:
- US "supercop" Bill Bratton, the prime minister's new crime adviser has said communities cannot "arrest their way out" of gang crime
- Two men have been arrested over the death of Trevor Ellis, who was found with bullet wounds in a car in Croydon, south London, during Monday night's rioting
- Families of three men killed when hit by a car in Birmingham during the riots have praised people for their response, as police arrest two more suspects and are given more time to question three people who were already arrested
- A 33-year-old man has become the fourth person arrested in connection with a fire that destroyed the Reeves Furniture store during rioting in Croydon on Monday
- Images of suspects continue to be displayed to shoppers on a large city centre screen in Birmingham
- Chancellor George Osborne has dismissed calls to reverse cuts to police budgets, telling BBC Radio Four's Today programme that violent disorder meant tackling "deep-seated social problems", not scaling back austerity measures
- Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has been visiting Manchester, where more than 100 premises in the city and in nearby Salford were looted during disturbances
- On a visit to riot-hit Hackney in east London, Labour leader Ed Miliband reiterated his calls for a public inquiry into the riots, saying it was imperative to have a "national discussion" to address the issues behind the disturbances
- Metropolitan Police, which has now arrested 1,125 people and charged 750, has released a further 44 images of suspects thought to be involved in rioting
- Merseyside Police have also released CCTV images of people it wants to speak to over the riots
- Greater Manchester Police say they have been "inundated" with tip-offs in response to their "Shop A Looter" campaign.
Four courts have sat in London while Manchester Magistrates' Court has seen about 30 riot-related cases.
At the scene
Sitting near their son in the dock, there was trepidation on the faces of his parents when they themselves were told to stand up in the courtroom.
Were they about to be publicly lambasted for their 14-year old's behaviour?
Far from it. District Judge Khalid Qureshi congratulated them.
They'd seen their son's photograph among mugshots in a newspaper. Disgusted, they'd marched him down to the police station with the clothes he'd been wearing on the night of the riots.
"You did absolutely the right thing," said Mr Qureshi. "I only wish more parents took their responsibilities as seriously."
The boy had been walking past a supermarket with a smashed window. He'd leaned inside and picked up a packet of chewing gum. Now he was facing a criminal record.
Turning to the boy, Mr Qureshi rebuked him for the trouble he'd caused his parents. "They've worked hard to provide you with what you need … and this is what you do to them."
His youth and lack of a criminal record meant he wouldn't get a custodial sentence, having pleaded guilty to burglary. Instead a nine-month referral order.
"But I don't give second chances," said Mr Qureshi sternly. "What you did was not through stupidity, but dishonesty."
On Saturday, Westminster Magistrates' Court dealt with cases which included Reece Donovan, 21, of Cross Road, Romford, east London, who was remanded in custody after he was charged with robbing Malaysian student Asyraf Haziq in Barking on Monday.
Reece Jackson, 18, of Holly Park Estate, north London, was accused of breaking into My Cycle bike shop in Barnsbury Street, north London, and stealing £20,000 worth of cycles and for breaking into Food City and stealing £595 in cash, 20 packets of cigarettes and causing £3,000 worth of damage. He was remanded in custody.
Manchester Magistrates' Court dealt with Edward Adeyemi, 19, from Enfield, north London, who was charged with taking an iron grid out of the ground and smashing his way into a sports store, allowing scores of people to loot the business in Manchester.
Eighteen-year-old Matthew Chin, of Darville Road, north London, who has been before the courts 21 times but has never received a prison sentence, was warned he was going to jail after he admitted violent disorder and attempted burglary of a Carphone Warehouse on Holloway Road in Manchester.
Westminister Magistrates' Court will hear cases on Sunday, a move which the Ministry of Justice has called "highly unusual".
Manchester magistrate Richard Monkhouse warned against a "knee-jerk reaction" to the violence.
"Simply to say that locking somebody up is the only option is not sensible," he said.
"Sometimes you think, well, are we actually trying to do this too quickly. Are we trying to do this without all the full information that magistrates can assess what the seriousness of the offence and who the offender is?"
Human rights barrister Matthew Ryder said rushing cases through court was a "recipe for problems".
"A fair result's much harder to attain if you're trying to do things very, very quickly. It may mean that people who have a minor role will be elevated and people who have a serious role won't be properly identified," he added.
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