UPset by Leicestershire murder; how to keep teenagers safe?

[zebra]

HIya --
If you heard on the news about the 14 yo boy in Loughborough who got murdered & chopped up that happened where I live. I walked down the canal, walked by the grass verge/allotments, walked on a footpath around the park where the different body parts were all found all hours (and I do mean just 1-3 hours) before the discoveries were all officially made thankfully not by me. And these are all places that not many people go to.

I'm quite spooked by it. I wish I had seen something anything to tell the police. I really don't ever want to get closer to a murder case than this! We don't know anything, locally, about why this happened, yet. Like to think it was a "bad" kid in with a "bad" lot, but something tells me it was just an ordinary kid who made a few judgements & got into a horrendous situation. Which was worse, because how do you prevent that? Can't keep a teenager in a glass box...

Anyway, just had to say something.

How odd, Zebra, that I've just read a news item on the BBC website as I catch up with what's happening in the UK. I felt quite sick when I read it but nothing like as bad as you must be feeling. At 14, it's hard to feel anything but sorrow that his life has ended in such a terrible way, whether or not he was 'bad'. I guess he was still some mother's son. And as for the suspects they have in custody - three of them are teenagers too.

I can only think that they all must have been high as kites on something and the situation got out of hand. Anything else is just too horrible.