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It happens more often than it is reported, usually in areas that the gubment knows are deprived but still see fit to remove funding from the youth services they blame for not doing enough to engage the young people to mitigate against it. Last fatal stabbing in Islington was only a couple of weeks ago. This is very likely to do with stupid turf war stuff, I very much doubt the stealing of the bike was the primary or underlying motive. The kid didn't even need to be involved in anything, probably just wasn't recognised by the attackers. mrs_com runs/is heavily involved in 3 youth centres in Islington (not the table tennis & pool table kind) and is expecting to see tit for tat bullshit for the next few weeks.