Violence
Goose Fair has been seldom affected by violence, but in 2004, a girl, Danielle Beccan, 14, was fatally shot as she walked home from the Goose Fair through the St. Ann's estate, over a mile from the fair. Following the murder, The Guardian reported that the Goose Fair period was traditionally a time of tension between rival groups, but Danielle herself was not in a gang. Two people were convicted of the murder.
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—Andrea Dworkin (b. 1946)
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