Pictured: Dozens of suspected rioters still wanted by police year on from 2024 disorder triggered by Southport stabbings

The pictures of dozens of suspected rioters are still wanted by police have been revealed, more than a year after the violent disorder that broke out across the UK.

Police determination to track down those involved is a warning to troublemakers not to repeat the unrest this year, a police body said.

A website is being set up with details of around 40 suspects still wanted across five police forces – Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Cleveland, Northumbria and Avon and Somerset.

Disorder spread across the UK in the wake of the Southport murders last year, amid false rumours that the killer was a Muslim immigrant.

Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, were stabbed to death at a Taylor Swift themed dance class in the quiet Merseyside seaside town on July 29 in "one of the worst crimes in UK history".

Eight other girls suffered injuries, as did two adults, with many more suffering trauma that will stay with them for life.

Axel Rudakubana was sentenced to 52 years for their murders, being told he will likely "die in jail".

The unrest led to a total of 1,876 people being arrested, with 1,110 charged so far, the National Police Chiefs' Council said.

According to the Crown Prosecution Service, its data tracking cases related to the disorder shows 821 defendants out of 859 were convicted by the end of March this year.

District Crown Prosecutor in Merseyside and Cheshire, Joshua Sanderson-Kirk, told LBC: “The fact these sentences were passed so quickly meant that further disorder was avoided.

“There were people involved who came from further afield to engage in that disorder. It wasn’t a protest, it was disorder.”

The first person to be sentenced for the violent disorder in Southport, was Derek Drummond, 58, from Pool Street in the town.

He admitted violent disorder after shouting “Sh**houses” and punching a police officer in the face. Drummond was given three years behind bars, but, having been released eight months into that stretch, an LBC reporter asked him for his reflections on his behaviour to which he replied with: “I’m not interested mate, get off my property.”

Mr Sanderson-Kirk added: “You can say it’s only throwing a brick at a police officer, but huge numbers of police officers were injured.

The impact on the community was massive. I spoke to a mother from Southport who went from fearing sending her child to an after-school club, to suddenly fearing for her own life in her own home.”

This month, multiple protests have been held outside a hotel in Epping where migrants are housed after an asylum-seeker was charged with allegedly attempting to kiss a 14-year-old girl.

There have been additional protests in Norfolk and London, but so far wider unrest has been avoided.

Assistant Chief Constable Ian Drummond-Smith, who led the national response to investigating the riots, told the PA news agency: "We have a duty to facilitate protest … but what we saw last year, and in a few isolated cases this year, is where it's gone to criminality and to serious disorder.

"In those cases what I think we can learn from last year is that justice will be swift, and I hope that that would be a deterrent to anyone thinking about engaging in serious disorder this year.

"We've made effective use of CCTV, bodyworn video, and we've been able to bring a lot of people in front of the courts."

The police chief also said officers are working "very hard" to contain the "small pockets" of disorder this year.

He said: "I think they've been isolated because of a swift police response to them, and I think that's the key thing.

"If we can respond to serious disorder swiftly, I think we can contain that and prevent it from spreading across the country, so that's what we're working very hard on."

Since last year, Mr Drummond-Smith added: "We've sharpened up our ability to mobilise quickly and move resources around the country so we can achieve that quicker."

Last summer's disturbances, which saw mosques and hotels housing asylum seekers targeted, were denounced at the time as "far-right thuggery" by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.

Reflecting on the violent disorder in Southport and Liverpool City Centre, West Derby MP, Ian Byrne, who had been part of a peaceful rally at St George’s Hall just hours earlier, told LBC: “Obviously after Southport emotions were rightly running high.

"People were horrified by what happened to the poor girls. It is a worry about what you’re seeing across the country, you look at what’s happening in Epping, there’s an undoubted move by people to try an destabilise the country and communities, and I just hope people stick together.

“Rightly, if there’s something you’re not happy about, in the right way you can make your voice heard loud and clear. If you feel politicians aren’t doing what they should be doing there’s a right way of doing that. The violence we’ve seen on our streets twelve months ago, I really hope that’s not replicated and we find a better way to face the challenges the country undoubtedly faces.”

Police chiefs are now launching the national appeal for suspects wanted over "significant" public order offences from the disorder, including throwing bricks and serious assaults of members of the public.

Local and social media appeals sharing images of the suspects have already been used to try to track them down, but the senior officer said they could have travelled into the area from another part of the country.

Mr Drummond-Smith said: "One year on, we've still got some people who we have got good images of and we haven't yet identified.

"I think the key thing is having a good image of someone is one thing, knowing who they are is another. We're asking the public to have a look, and if they recognise anyone in those images, to let us know who they are and bring them to justice."

To view the website go to police.uk/disorder-appeal