The forgotten girls of Britain’s gangs

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“Put your shoes on, put your coat on, pack your knife,” says Nequela Whittaker, a former gang leader in South London turned youth worker. “It’s a ritual for too many young people in the UK. Not only boys, girls also,” the energetic 31-year-old tells me sitting in a meeting room in South London’s Merton Council, where she talks with young people everyday, mostly girls, who are caught up in street crime. It’s not a place she imagined she’d be at the age of 17 when she was sent to prison forhellip;

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Madeline Roache, Khareem Sudlow