A chase, rumours and police mistrust: How the death of two teenagers tore a Cardiff community apart

In 1991, poverty and dejection sparked riots that took over the streets of Ely, Cardiff. More than 30 years later, not much has changed, as Harry Hawkins reports

People attend a vigil for the victims of a road traffic collision on Snowden Road in Ely, Cardiff (PA)

Standing in the bright May sunshine on a street in the Cardiff suburb of Ely, you can still feel the melting pot of emotion, days after violent riots were triggered by the deaths of two teenage best friends in a bike crash.

Grief for the loss of Kyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, was matched by anger towards the police after a perceived chase by officers before their deaths.

That rage spilled over into riots in neighbouring streets on the close-knit but poverty-stricken housing estate as hundreds of teenagers gathered, enraged and destroying whatever they could lay their hands on.