Gang-member jailed...after asking to be locked up (From Echo)
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Gang-member jailed...after asking to be locked up
1:30pm Tuesday 12th February 2013 in News
A SCHOOLBOY with links to the notorious “Get Paid Daily” gang has been sent to a young offender’s institution - after he asked to be locked up.
he 16-year-old, who lives in Southend, appeared before youth court where he refused to comply with any community order handed to him.
The court heard how the youth had said he wanted to be sent into custody after confirming he was part of the notourious GPD gang who cause trouble across Southend.
The Echo has reported how the gang has been linked with a series of robberies since last summer.
Police have now taken to applying for “gang injunctions” which prevent known members associating with each other or wearing hoods or the gang’s trademark red face scarves.
This teenager had been arrested for breaching a Youth Rehabilitation Order designed to be a final chance before custody.
Offenders who get this order must attend appointments with the Youth Offending Service, but he had repeatedly failed to show up.
He also pleaded guilty to possession of cannabis, which was found after police stopped a group of youngsters in Southchurch Road, Southend, and searched them.
His previous court order had been given to him for another offence in Southchurch Road where five youths were arrested following an attack on two men.
The boy was sentenced to four months in a young offenders institution.
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Comments (20)
2:27pm Tue 12 Feb 13
TherealIndiana says...
3:17pm Tue 12 Feb 13
leighman says...
Yeah..Lock the little toerag up, then throw away the key.
3:23pm Tue 12 Feb 13
supermadmax says...
This is not south central LA, Echo !
He wanted to be locked up to boost his 'street cred' in the same way that you are boosting the 'gangs street cred' by reporting of them in this manor.
You should mock them in your reports : " the 16 year old looked petrified in the dock as the judge sentenced him "
Also i disagree with the above poster, no holiday at all, he will be scared he will be locked up with boys much older & stronger than him * i suspect they will not be to scared of the Echo labeled notorious “Get Paid Daily” gang.
3:33pm Tue 12 Feb 13
smiffy1980 says...
3:46pm Tue 12 Feb 13
notinwestcliffanymore says...
3:57pm Tue 12 Feb 13
marshman says...
4:31pm Tue 12 Feb 13
stopmoaning1 says...
3:23pm Tue 12 Feb 13
]The notorious “Get Paid Daily” gang] !!
This is not south central LA, Echo !
He wanted to be locked up to boost his 'street cred' in the same way that you are boosting the 'gangs street cred' by reporting of them in this manor.
You should mock them in your reports : " the 16 year old looked petrified in the dock as the judge sentenced him "
Exactly, doesn’t take a genius to work that one out.
Get Paid Daily Gang - 1, Echo - Nil
5:06pm Tue 12 Feb 13
jayman says...
GPD is not a specific gang its a franchise for small boys who want to look and sound tough..
6:38pm Tue 12 Feb 13
captain mannering says...
8:00pm Tue 12 Feb 13
EssexBoy1968 says...
I personally cannot see anyone asking to be locked up (although I suppose it does give the chance to "network" with other lawbreakers & compare notes), & am more inclined to the view that he, & his defence team, believed he would receive some sort of non-custodial sentence that did not impose too many restrictions on his daily activities.
I suppose it's not worth asking where the parents & extended family were when he needed teaching between right & wrong, or what efforts have been made by the school he was enrolled in (but doubtless never attended) to help keep out of custody. I fear another young life will become wasted, or even cut short...
10:51pm Tue 12 Feb 13
stopmoaning1 says...
I see your exams were not in English then.
3:37pm Wed 13 Feb 13
notinwestcliffanymore says...
4:25pm Wed 13 Feb 13
watnocky says...
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thereisonly1jp says...
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Jack Annory says...
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