A sad reflection on life in Britain's cities

There is mich on the Rhys Jones case in this morning's papers and no doubt we are going to hear a lot about broken Britain

It is worth reading the opinion piece in the Independent this morning.

Like the murder of Baby P and the kidnap of Shannon Matthews, the killing of Rhys Jones has shone an unforgiving spotlight on parts of modern Britain. And what it reveals is not pretty.

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Like the killing of the toddler, James Bulger, in the same part of the country in 1993, the death provoked national shock, as Rhys was named the youngest victim of gang violence in Britain. But the truth was that, unlike the Bulger killing, such a tragedy was long on the cards.