Disorganised crime

摘要

A photographer sprawlsonthepave-ment, snapping a teenage girl in a pink velour tracksuit while she cups her hand around a candle flame to protect it from the October drizzle. Flowers and candles mark the spot where 14-year-old Danielle Bee-can was shot dead early on Saturday morning as she returned from a funfair. First reports gave the shooting a gangsterish air: the bullets, they said, came from a gold Mercedes with blacked-out windows. The car has since been downgraded to a plain Citroen, which seems a more appropriate ride for the kind of low-rent but violent criminals who have given Nottingham a reputation as Britain's gun capital.