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Sat 08 Aug 2008London gripped by fear of teen knife crime
Seventeen teenagers have been stabbed to death already this year in the UK capital, and some young people are being sucked into a cycle of guns, gangs and knives, say senior police, writes Kathy Sheridanin London
LAST WEEK, 18-year-old Ryan Bravo, a business student from the south London borough of Southwark, became the 22nd teenager to die violently in the British capital this year. His death had a tragically familiar ring. He was an innocent bystander, said the police, while his mother, Elfrida, and his siblings grieved for a "decent, hard-working young man" and implored witnesses to come forward to help detectives.
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