The killing of Rhys Jones:

There is no suggestion that 11-year-old Rhys Jones, who was shot dead in Croxteth, Liverpool, on Wednesday, was in any way involved with gangs. But the fact his killer, who police believe was aged between 13 and 15, had access to a gun will come as no surprise to anyone who looks for videos posted on the web by locals who see themselves as gangsters. Theirs is a world where firearms, motorbike stunts and images purported to be of bloodstained victims are prominent.

scouser = Person from Liverpool
Noggzy = Norris Green

Gangs flaunt guns and cars on YouTube after Liverpool murder

Teenage gangs in Liverpool are using the popular video-sharing website YouTube to flaunt their culture of violence and law-breaking, taunting each other, making threats, and showing off guns and cars, it emerged Friday. The video clips have come to prominence following the murder on Wednesday of 11-year-old Rhys Jones, shot dead as he returned from football practice to his home in the well-to-do Croxteth Park area of the city.

On Friday, clips showing the activities of two gangs from the neighbouring Norris Green and Croxteth areas were still posted up on YouTube. Several arrests have been made following the murder but police are still looking for the killer, believed to be a teenager linked to the gangs. In one clip, a youth can be seen pointing a gun to the camera. In another, an apparently bloodied victim is shown.

Croxteth and Norris Green have been associated with gang violence.

UNDER YOB RULE

THE yob teenage gangs turning Britain’s estates into lawless no-go areas are exposed by The People today.

Yob = A thugish young male.

We began our investigation on the Custom House estate in Canning Town, East London, where TV engineer Peter Woodhams, 22, was shot dead when he tackled the same gang who had earlier slashed his face. We learned that the gang who call themselves the Murray Square Crew mug pensioners as they leave the Post Office or withdraw cash from machines…….

Canning Town

BIRMINGHAM

They call it The Bronx

THE Wyrley Birch Estate in Kingstanding, Birmingham, is so dangerous it is nicknamed Britain’s Bronx by locals.

Two miles away on an estate in Aston, the grim situation is the same.

LIVERPOOL

Someone shot every month A STREET in Liverpool’s tough Norris Green has been turned into a shrine for local gangleader Liam Smith who was shot dead by a rival gang. Gangs in the area are made up of around 50 youths, all white, aged between 14 and 19. In Norris local gangs use the public phone box as the centre of their drug operation. In nearby Croxteth gun crime is out of control. A recent series of dawn-raids revealed a wall full of photographs of guns pinned alongside a list of names of suspected members of the Croxteth Crew.

There is an interesting website called ChavTowns and a sister site ChavScum. Worth a look. They say they are user guides to Britain’s ASBO Generation.

ASBO = delinquent (also: Anti Social Behaviour Order, like curfews, for example)
Chav = British white trash types. Many definitions here.