Michelle Golding and The Film "Beyond The Hoodie"
The estate was subject to a recent ITV documentary whereby a local MP, Ann Widdecombe, spent a night in one of the flats to highlight the supposed problem of youths causing trouble at all hours.
The youth of Andover Estate recently got together with a London film maker Michelle Golding to produce a film rebutting the Ann Widdecombe programme.
Young residents put across their side of the story to demonstrate that they are more likely to be victims of crime than perpetrators.
The film highlights the actual reduction in crime on the estate over the last couple of years and the problem of much of the crime being committed by non-residents. It also discusses the negative impact created by the sloppy journalism of the Ann Widdecombe film. This was brought into sharp focus by the murder of a 14 year old boy in July 2007; in June 2011 a 21-year-old man was stabbed to death by a large gang. This last killing came less than a week after another man was stabbed in nearaby Tollingdon Place which leads to the estate.
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