Could We Send Some Yardies Off to Eton? ; Figures Released This Week Revealed That Gun Crime Is at an All- Time High On the Streets of the Uk. Alex Beaty Argues That to Find Some Answers We Need to Return to the Old Empire

Birmingham Post › October 23, 2004

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Crime never seems more foreboding than when it is committed by foreigners. In the last couple of years, the British criminal justice system has received a body blow from the West Indies as a new wave of unrest in the Caribbean spills onto the streets.

Many members of 'Yardie' gangs carry firearms as a matter of routine and their increasing presence on the British gangland scene has triggered an arms race amongst their domestic rivals.

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Could We Send Some Yardies Off to Eton? ; Figures Released This Week Revealed That Gun Crime Is at an All- Time High On the Streets of the Uk. Alex Beaty Argues That to Find Some Answers We Need to Return to the Old Empire

That drive for using live ammunition has come as much from imported gang violence as it has from homebred thuggery and new Home Office figures have only reinforced this picture.

The phenomenon is hardly confined to West Indian men. Some of our women's prisons have become dumping grounds fo...

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