Paul Williams on juvenile joyriders and the justice crisis
21 August - 1 hour 1 minIn all his years covering crime, Paul Williams says he has rarely, if ever, seen a public reaction to a story like this one.
The horrific crash on the M9, involving a car carrying a group of teenage joyriders travelling the wrong way down the motorway, has provoked an extraordinary level of anger. It seems to have tapped into something deeper too - a growing frustration about repeat offenders, the safety of ordinary people going about their lives, and a feeling that something in the system simply isn’t working.
So I asked Paul Williams, Special Correspondent with the Irish Independent, to come in and talk me through what happened and why this particular story has struck such a nerve.
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