How Middlesbrough became the UK’s crime capital: ‘What the hell happens next?’
High levels of unemployment and poverty have led to the north-east town suffering disproportionately with organised criminal networks and suspected gang wars.
That escalated this week with a series of car rammings and a deadly house fire, leaving residents fearing for what comes next, as Holly Evans reports
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