A teenager pictured giving policemen the middle finger at the recent student riots should have been at a job interview, it has emerged.

The Sun reports that Ollie Moore, who was photographed with a finger in the air, sporting a police helmet and standing in front of a police van in Whitehall, had gone to London from his parents’ home in Surrey to try and land his first proper job.

Makes you glad there wasn’t a riot on the day Dick Whittington arrived in London to seek his fortune.