UK News 30-06-2005 who: Father of three Muglin Southerman what: Kicked to death for "refusing to give a group of youths a light" where: FAILSWORTH when: Tuesday snippet: "They dragged him out of the shop and knocked him to the ground and started kicking him and jumping on his head," says a witness, quoted in The Times. "All of them were kicking him." In other news of what The Mirror calls "yob Britain", 56 year-old father of five Terry Barrett collapsed and died in Saltash, Cornwall, "trying to protect his home from egg-throwing hoodie yobs" but on Wednesday Home Office minister Hazel Blears claimed that, according to the very latest official figures, six out of ten people who have received anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) have not reoffended. Meanwhile, 22 year-old self-styled King of the Chavs Michael Carroll, who won £9.7million on the lottery in 2002, admitted to King`s Lynn magistrates that he had smashed 32 car and shop windows by firing ball bearings from a catapult. "He was given 240 hours` community service and told to pay £3,628 compensation plus £45 costs," says The Mirror. "Asked afterwards what he thought of the sentence, the former dustman said: `It seems fair`." [... more]

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