One of the offenders comes from a “sprawling estate” while another comes from a home with beer cans littering the yard.
Two offenders are girls.
Doesn’t appear that a single one of them apologized or is the least bit regretful about what they did and it seems this is a place where the village raises the children so the parents don’t have to.
The father of one says it is going to be difficult to raise the 1500 pounds (my father would have taken it and more out of my hide and made me go clean up the mess and do other work.) This guy who works at a grocery store sort of shrugs and says he supposes they will “take it out of my benefits” while stating his kid has not apologized but doesn’t seem interested in punishing his kid at all, or else cannot say so because only the “community” can set the punishment.
Well, sounds like the gang was at least “diverse” ...must have brought out the best in them.
Just reading this makes me think the British have run out of testosterone.
"Estate" doesn't mean the same thing there as it does here. It's roughly what we would call a "housing development" or even "the projects", depending how many of the residents are on welfare. The units can be as small as narrow, 2-story row houses.