Why New Zealand has such a high rate of gang membership
Australia is only partly to blame
A fter ihaka’s father died, his mother hit the bottle and the Maori teenager got into drugs. “I had all these mental frustrations that I didn’t know how to cope with,” he recalls, now aged 24 and awaiting trial for assault. “My family disowned me so I ended up living on the streets. That’s how I became a gang member.”
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Mongrel mobsters”
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