In April, a study entitled ‘The Cost of Exclusion’ said that a million young people in Britain are facing the probability of a lifetime on benefits and that the rising tide of youth crime is costing £1 billion a year.
Over Easter there were yet more murders of young people apparently by other young people in Manchester and London.
The country had previously been shocked by the murders of Billy Cox, Michael Dosunmu, James Andre Smartt Ford, Odwayne Barnes, Kodjo Yenga and Adam Regis. These young men were all under 17 years old, and all killed by other young men.
