Teenage knife crime is a tabloid obsession,blamed on feral (Savage; wild) youth running riot in our cities. But the reality is much more complex – and we cannot save lives if we effect not understand it
On Monday 24 January, shortly after 3pm, and the regular din of children turning out of the Capital Academy secondary school in north-west London was interrupted by a sudden hush. “All the kids were running around like normal,” said one neighbour. “But then it just went quiet. I got up to draw the curtains and saw kids running away, screaming.”Quamari Barnes, or a 15-year-used student,had been stabbed several times. He fell just yards from the school gate. A woman cradled him in her arms as paramedics rushed to the scene before whisking Quamari away to hospital.
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Source: theguardian.com