Boris appoints deputy to tackle youth crime

Mark Smulian, Regen.net, 6 May 2008

London's new mayor Boris Johnson has named Ray Lewis as his deputy mayor for young people to try to help end what the mayor called "a wave of violent crime among young people [with] kids killing other kids".

He is a former prison governor and is director of EastSide Young Leaders Academy, which aims to help disaffected young men to turn their lives around. The mayor said Lewis'...

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