Mugging has become a rite of passage for young people, says Jane Gordon, whose stepson was robbed as he walked home from school. There are a number of milestones in a child’s progress that middle-class parents rarely allude to and one of them — as Richard Madeley discovered last week — is “the first time your son or daughter is mugged”. In some ways Madeley can count himself lucky, as his 19-year-old daughter Chloe, who had her phone stolen, is an adult. For many, it happens at a much earlier age. Mugging has become, as Madeley put it, NFL (Normal...