"When I was a young man, I was in what you would call a gang," hereportedly told a conference. "We would hang about on a street corner.We had guitars and mouth organs and played some music, eventuallyjoining a rock group or a folk band."
However, The Scotsman goes on to describe rapid back-pedalling: "Askedwhat the name of his gang had been, Reid said: 'Are you going to put mein a gang? It wasn't a gang; just people hanging around'." And he'sright to quibble. Any activity that involves a bunch of people playingfolk music and mouth organs is, as the Youth Justice Board will tellyou, clearly "group-related offending".
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