“Our kids are actually dying – and it’s weekly. Mother after mother, after mother is burying their kids,” the heartbreaking words I heard from Maritha, a mother whose son Marley was shot dead on the streets of Stockholm.
Maritha spends her time campaigning to end gun crime, whilst her son’s killer is yet to face justice.
When I travelled to Stockholm for my On Assignment report, Maritha would be the first person to tell me the primary factor driving Sweden’s rising gun crime murders was segregation, but she would not be last.
The headlines about serious youth violence and gang crime bring to mind cities such as London, New York and Sao Paulo.
