Chelsea Ives is a gold medalist in rioting.

A shining example of what good young people can do, Chelsea Ives is also finding herself as a shining example of what bad young people can do, too.  As a representative of the Leyton Orient Community Sport Programme, Ives has met London mayor Boris Johnson, British Olympics chief Sebastian Coe, and a host of other dignitaries as a member of the Olympics Ambassadors (a group of young Olympics volunteers).  That’s before the outbreak of the London Riots.  Now, Chelsea Ives has gone from Olympic ambassador to rioter and national disgrace.  Kind of like the former Miss England/Olympic heptathlete Rachel Christie, who resigned in disgrace after a bar fight.

Ives, age 17, was the first person to pick up a chunk of masonry and hurl it through the window of a Phones4U store to kick off a round of looting; later, she was seen throwing a road barrier and bricks at a police car until the officers inside the unit were forced to abandon their BMW to the angry crowd.  She faces two counts of burglary, violent disorder and attacking a police car; Ives was denied bail and will appear at Highbury Corner magistrates court on August 17.

Amazingly enough, the person who turned Chelsea in for her crimes was her own mother, Adrienne Ives.  After spotting her rioting daughter on television, she immediately phoned the local police and turned the child in for her crimes.  Said the elder Ives, age 47, “I had to do what was right.”

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