After three gun deaths in a week, expert on gangs in city says youngsters are driven by excitement
“It’s sad to think that these are young people we’re talking about. A littered wasteland is part of their identity – they’re prepared to die for it,” says Robert Hesketh, a criminologist at Liverpool John Moores University.
He lives in North Huyton, an area he describes as very territorial – and he would know. He has spent his career researching Merseyside’s gangs.
