The culture of lawlessness and escalating gang violence in Middlesbrough which has brought armed police onto the streets of the town is encapsulated in a memorial poster for Cole Worthy, one of the teenagers killed in the catastrophic A66 crash.
Next to a photograph of the 17-year-old are the words: ‘A life so beautifully lived, deserves to be beautifully remembered.’
Only in the dystopian underclass of Teesside – and too many other areas of urban Britain where civil society has all but broken down – could the tragically short time Cole Worthy spent on this earth be glorified in this way.
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