Is the media portrayl of street crime representitive of a new moral panic?

Wednesday, 15 August 2007

Too scared to go out?

FAMILIES on a gang-ridden estate where a boy was stabbed to death revealed last night that they had warned cops a murder was likely.

Locals spoke after Glen Corner was killed in the street while out celebrating his 16th birthday.

Sheila Thompson, 32, who lives near the spot where he died, said: “We have been saying for months something like this was going to happen around here.


'I am scared to go out at night' said a resident in the estate.

Source: The Sun

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