Shell Reckons She Fights, or Watches Fights, Nearly Every Weekend. Why Does She Do It? 'You Get a Laugh. . .' Glasgow's Gangs Images of the City's She-Gangs Prove Organised Street Violence Is Not Just the Domain of Teenage Boys

Evening Times › February 08, 2006

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GLASGOW'S gangs are usually thought to be teenage boys running amok. However, Chief Reporter DAVID LEASK and photographer LENNY WARREN found that girls are also taking violence to the streets in she-gangs like the Gorbals Burdz and the Ibrox Young She Tongs EVEN her mum calls her Bitch. She's sixteen with big gallus hoop earrings, a scowl to match her name and a broken fist. "I hurt it fighting, " she says, holding up her bandaged fingers.

On her other hand are two brassy knuckle-duster rings. Both read "Bitch".

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Shell Reckons She Fights, or Watches Fights, Nearly Every Weekend. Why Does She Do It? 'You Get a Laugh. . .' Glasgow's Gangs Images of the City's She-Gangs Prove Organised Street Violence Is Not Just the Domain of Teenage Boys

Welcome to the world of the "she-gangs", Glasgow's fighting girls.

Bitch is happy enough getting her picture taken, acting up with a bit of attitude for the camera.

But she doesn't want her real name in the paper, even though she thinks her employers wo...

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