UK News 18-02-2005 who: 11 year-old thief Martin Faulkner what: Banned from city centre for two years where: NOTTINGHAM when: This week snippet: "Faulkner would wander the streets of the city centre, approach his young victims and demand their mobile telephones or cash," says The Telegraph. "If they refused, he would threaten them, suggesting that a gang of his friends was waiting nearby." The paper is at pains to examine the family and social circumstances that led to this week`s court order, concluding that the boy is "paying the price" for the breakdown of a consensus in social values and harking back to a time "when all responsible adults felt it was their moral duty to supervise the behaviour of children". [... more]

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