I went to school here.
The career path for most of the girls in my year was get pregnant and get your council house. Because they didn't know there was another option. They were the third generation of their family to do this. The same families are still there. MN will tell you this doesn't happen, it's a stereotype and derail threads with talk of goats and flat screen tvs but they live in middle class suburbia and have no idea of the conditions we grew up in.
Braunstone Town is much nicer than Braunstone, it's a more settled community.
As for the Asian girls, they made my life hell. Because of what my family ate and how they dressed, I wasn't considered brown enough and was subject to the most horrific bullying. It was the Braunstone girls that took me under their wing and kept me safe. They're not all bad and don't all produce feral kids, they just have a different way of life to what you know.
As for the Asian boys, my friend taught in the school closest to the area recently. She lasted a week. They intimidated her, walking into her classroom, throwing everything around, squaring up to her, following her, it was awful.
There were some kids however that were in and out of the YOI for years, like their dad's. We'd avoid where they hung out. Their parents didn't care where they were. They were hardly in school, the teachers preferred it that way, as did we. They were the ones vandalising and shoplifting, although that seems like small fry compared to what they'd do these days.
It sounds like I'm excusing this behaviour which I'm not, it's just clear that some of you don't know the area or what it's like to grow up in that environment.
A 14 year old has now been charged. I think he should be named, I think everyone should know who his family are. It's the only way to deter these people. Kids think they can get away with anything because they can't be named.
There is no ND or mental health condition that makes you kill a gentle 80 year old man. I think all the rest of them were released so quickly because one of them filmed it.