CRIMINAL “chicken shop gangs” are recruiting kids to deal drugs with the offer of free food. Gangs keep watch on school-age children who meet in fast food outlets during the daytime. On…
CRIMINAL "chicken shop gangs" are recruiting kids to deal drugs with the offer of free food.Criminals - also known as 'chicken shop gangs' - persuade children to deal drugs for them, particularly targeting those who have been excluded from schoolKids are being lured into the criminal world with the offer of free chicken, a parliamentary investigation has found
Young people with experience of the criminal justice system said kids who had been excluded from school were particularly vulnerable to exploitation. Earlier this month Nyron Jean-Baptiste, 18, was jailed for life after he knifed 15-year-old Jay Hughes to death outside a chicken shop. A poster campaign targeting high school students launched by London Grid for Learning - a community of schools and local authorities in the capital - tells children: "There's no such thing as free chicken! Friends of friends who buy you things often want something in return."
"Young people tend to go to places like fast-food chains of a cheaper cost. Young people may use certain fast-food chains as a place to socialise," she said. "They will watch and they will check and think, 'OK this particular young person comes in at this time, they leave at this time. Why are they not going home?'
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