Teen Turf Wars ; Last Week This Boy, Known As 'Captain Rocketz', Became the Latest Victim of Britain's Rising Tide of Gang Violence. Why? Simply Because He Strayed Into the Wrong Postcode

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THEY were paying their respects to a fallen soldier. Flowers were laid on the ground. Comrades stood in silence, whispering private tributes. Young girls knelt and prayed. Candles for the dead flickered in the weak winter sunlight.

'He was a really good kid,' said James, 15, shaking his head slowly in disbelief. 'He was full of life and laughs. I can't believe that he's gone now. We're all in bits. We just can't take in that he's gone so young.'

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Teen Turf Wars ; Last Week This Boy, Known As 'Captain Rocketz', Became the Latest Victim of Britain's Rising Tide of Gang Violence. Why? Simply Because He Strayed Into the Wrong Postcode

Laying a bouquet of lilies and carnations at the memorial, one teenage girl sobbed uncontrollably. Her school friends helped her away. Then the parents of the dead 'soldier' arrived.

It was too much for the father. He collapsed in grief, sobbing into the flowers and messages left beside the wall where his son had died. The mother cried: 'My boy! My boy!'

On a quiet London street this week, these scenes of loss were so powerful that passing motorists stopped their cars and switched off their engines as a mark of respect. 'Our condolences go to the fam...

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