Last week's media was awash with stories of teenagers wearing hooded tops who cornered Prescott at a motorway service station, before he was "rescued" by his minders, and who have been banned from Bluewater Shopping Centre, near Dartford, in Kent, if they wear either baseball caps or the hoods of their sweatshirts up because they're intimidating to other shoppers.
These stories were given an added boost by a TV report of the new teenage "craze" of happy slapping. This is where an unsuspecting member of the public is assaulted while the incident is recorded on a mobile phone by the assailant's companions.
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