Posts Tagged ‘postcode warfare’
I found this article on The Hackney Post, which albeit posted 13 months ago shows an attempt to use art and art therapy to bridge the gap between postcode wars. Young people caught up in Hackney’s postcode wars have been given the chance to express themselves through paint. A project called Inner Art is being [...]
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Tags: Art Threapy, Banksy, E5, E8, Graffiti, Hackney, postcode warfare, The Hackney Post
Stabbed Update
An update of the boy from youth church who was stabbed during a ‘postcode gang war’ on Saturday. We have just found out he was actually stabbed 9 times, no news of yet on his condition.
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Tags: E5, East London, Gangs, Hackney, postcode warfare, Stabbed, violence
Crime in Hackney – Video
I found this video online, which is a documentary about post-code wars in hackney made in 2007. There is also a supporting webpage here. One of the featured teenagers, Joseph Pilgrim, is actually someone I know, and went so school with. The film made by BBC Inside Out London, tells the story of postcode gangs, [...]
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Tags: crime, E5, East London, Hackney, postcode warfare, violence
Stabbed x 6
6 people from the ‘square boys’ have been stabbed this week – Murder Mile is really living up to its name. From what I have heard, is that Clapton Park, and the ‘Square boys’ (= the gang which gather in Gilpin Square) are under attack, this week, there has been a number of attacks on [...]
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Tags: E5, E9, Gangs, postcode warfare, Stabbed
