Well those court figures are just the 'facts of the day' it seems.
Take facts as you will I suppose.
Another one they trumpeted was that a fifth prosecuted were aged between 10 and 17, so unreportedly that means 4/5ths were what we'd call 'adults'.
Yet all the concern remember back then was about 'feral youth' etc, and all the camera shots were equally as impeccable.
EDIT: I know too statistically more people in the UK are adults than are chuldren, but the 'grand narrative of things' ain't my concern here - it's media inference.
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