Childhood Robbery : Ricky & Danny Preddie

This Is Monsters

Jiles

True Crime

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Season 18 : Killer Kids

Damilola Taylor had immigrated to England with his mother and siblings for a promise of a better life. Little did they know, it would only take months before the boy became the target of Ricky and Danny Preddie, two violent youths in the area.

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0:00.0	Demola Taylor's family had immigrated to England to try to have a better life for him and his siblings.
0:06.0	Wanting the best for your children is common for most parents.
0:10.0	Little could they have known that the move would only bring pain and suffering.
0:15.0	This is monsters. And then. The Ricky and Danny Preti lived in almost feral lifestyle on the streets of North Peckham State in South London.
0:48.0	They had lived with their mother, Marion Johnson, but they had almost no supervision.
0:53.6	They began terrorizing the neighborhood when Ricky was only 11 years old and Danny was 10.
0:59.4	They started by bullying other kids and stealing phones, but they quickly escalated to assault.
1:05.3	They banded together with other kids in the area and started a gang called the Young Peckham Boys.
1:11.1	In 1999, both Ricky, Danny, and some other boys were charged with sexual assault on two girls age 10 and 12 in a park in Peckham.
1:20.0	They were initially tried in adult court, but the case was thrown out by the judge because it should have been dealt with by the youth court.
1:27.0	In the summer of 2000, Danny was convicted of assault with intent to rob after attacking a teenage boy with a baseball bat and demanding money from him.
1:37.0	In November of 2000, both of the Preties had been arrested for violent crimes and were both out on bail.
1:44.0	Danny was under a 24-hour curfew at the Abbey Street Children's Home awaiting trial for five robberies.
1:51.0	But it turned out that the youth home had a rather dismal track record with the children it was housing.
1:56.0	An investigation found that every night at least two of the 11 problem teenagers held at the Abbey Street home would disappear for more than two hours.
2:05.8	Most of the residents at the home were between the ages of 12 and 16 and were on bail or remand.
2:12.1	Despite that, the supervisors didn't do much to stop the youth offenders from leaving the
2:17.1	facility to meet up with street gangs and commit further crimes.
2:21.3	Inspectors found that the 11 residents of the Abbey Street home were reported missing to police on 866 occasions in the 12 months before November of 2000.
2:32.0	Inside the home, violent bullying was rife,
2:35.0	yet according to the inspection reports,
2:38.0	the council ignored calls from social workers
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