Brother of teen gunned down in shop joins fight on criminal gangs
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THE brother of a “bright and beautiful” teenager gunned down in a takeaway shop, is helping to launch a new initiative against the growing menace of gang culture to prevent more deaths.
Abiola Adesina, aged 33, from Abington, Northampton, is one of a number of people affected by gun crime who is supporting a new campaign launched by the Metropolitan Police to tackle gangs.
His sister, Agnes Sina-Inakoju, was only 16 when she was shot dead in a takeaway in Hoxton, east London, in April 2010.
The Metropolitan Police yesterday announced a unit, set up to tackle gun crime in black communities, Operation Trident, is to lead an anti-teenage gang initiative to divert young people away from these groups and to encourage others to come forward with information.
Mr Adesina, who recently moved from London to Northampton, said he supported the initiative in the hope it would prevent other tragedies.
He said: “With what’s happening at the moment, it’s really quite scary because gang culture is getting out of hand.
“All it takes is for people in the community to do nothing for it to get worse. I thought something like this would never happen to me until it did happen. It’s effecting not just London and the big cities but across the whole country.
“If someone in a gang can talk to someone and if they can be convinced that what they’re doing is wrong and if they can give up being in gang, at least we protect him from himself and protect other families from him because you never know what is going to happen.
“In movies the bad things always catch up with the bad guys. They live life fine for a few years. People in gangs should be asked whether they want this. Do they actually think about their friends, their family, their parents? Do they know what effect that will have on them?
Agnes’s killers were only brought to justice when a member of the London Fields gang broke ranks and told police who was involved. Mr Adesina said: “These kids are being pressured to do things they’re not meant to do. Once this youth realised those people responsible for my sister’s death had been arrested, he knew he could tell the police whatever he needed to tell them.”
“I believe others should come forward and say ‘this is what I know’. If we don’t encourage them to do that, then they’ll keep quiet.”
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