- Saturday, April 20, 2024
By: Eastern Eye Staff
by NADEEM BADSHAH CONCERNS OVER ASIAN COMMUNITY’S ‘FAILURE’ TO DEAL WITH RISING PROBLEM ASIAN community leaders are failing to tackle the growing trend of children being lured by gangs, according to one of Britain’s leading crime fighters. Nazir Afzal, former chief prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said “there is a significant issue around drug-related crime in the Asian community” but families are not speaking with their sons and daughters about the dangers. Afzal said around one in 10 Muslim prisoners is serving sentences for drug-related offences in the UK. It comes after Barnado’s, the UK’s biggest children’s charity, said it…
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