UK teen homicides linked to social media lead to calls for more to be done

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DEVON - Two weeks ago, a BBC Panorama documentary on the"social media murder" of a teenager sent chills down the spines of many parents across Britain.

DEVON - Two weeks ago, a BBC Panorama documentary on the"social media murder" of a teenager sent chills down the spines of many parents across Britain.

The gangster-style stabbing last year of Olly Stephens, 13, by two boys he knew only from Snapchat, in a field called Bugs Bottom in Reading, was the sort of knife crime that felt horrifically out of place in English middle-class suburbia.Get exclusive reports and insights with more than 500 subscriber-only articles every month

 

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