Danger in numbers

摘要

Texting someone else's girlfriend, gatecrashing a party, hailing the wrong person in the street: these innocuous offences are all said to have provided teenagers with motives for murder. Four fatal stabbings and one shooting shocked London this week, while in Manchester a 19-year-old was jailed for blasting a youth in a trivial row. A recurring factor, besides senselessness, was gang membership.