Drugs trade – Hackney Citizen

Top boy: stories of Hackney’s young drug dealers

By Hackney Citizen | Sunday 9 October 2011 at 18:59

Ronan Bennett spent two years interviewing gang members in east London for his powerfully personal TV drama, Top Boy. Here he describes their hidden, hopeless world – and the lengths they’ll go to escape from it

Contract killers as young as 15 recruited to do drug syndicates’ dirty work

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 26 May 2011 at 23:02

Turkish crime gangs in north London thought to be linked to spate of killings