Kubrick's Clockwork Orange? This is as absurd as saying .Hitchcock's 39 Steps.
How about naming the actual authors?

Zena Lazarus, San Miguel, Mexico

We are all paying the price of complete 'urban breakdown' caused through 11 years of woolly liberalism, with their political correctness and no morals or clear message of right and wrong, we now have the society they advocated.. 'do what you want when you want to anyone.' Result total chaos!

Simon Icke, Aylesbury, UK

@ Rob Hoyer, when the police are freed from the mire of beaurocracy they are drowning in, when discipline is returned to schools and when they introduce parenting licenses. You mean to tell me raising our nation's future citizens is less responsibility than driving a moped?

Al, Bournemouth,

where does all this gangster mentality spurn from who glorifies mainly the idea of getting on in life is to be violent and accumilate as much material goods as possible. Film makers from certain parts of the world have helped impress this attitude and added fuel to fire in the minds of the ignorant.

Adrian, Besançon, France

Wimbledon is in South London. Enough said on the topic.

Lorenzo, London, England

I don't see the basis for Oliver Conway's comment. This man, with burns to his arms and hands, apprently turned himself in to the police several days ago. He was then taken to hospital, treated and released, questioned, and now charged. How is this "rough justice prior to his interview"?

Gill, Southampton, UK

Rob Hoyer: I agree.

When I lived in UK, my British friends would say "take care, don't get shot" before travelling to LA.
Now I have moved my family to "safe" LA, when I visit London my friends here warn "take care, don't get stabbed"...

Kubrick's "Clockwork Orange" was an accurate prediction.

charlie, los angeles, USA

To Terrence Penang,
Funny how easy it is to generalise when faced with tragedy. I lived in South London for many years while it sounds like you have not.

Rash, broad sweeping comments such as yours are what Patriot Acts, Terrorism Laws and Nights of Broken Glass are born from.

Stan, new york, usa

This type of attack just shouts what south london is all about. Low class, out of work, wanna be drug dealers, watching too much tarantino. Nothing going on in their lives, and not wanting for anything thanks to the free handout the government has been giving for far too long.

Terrence, Penang, Malaysia

So the police issued some rough justice on him prior to his interview...one can always count on the "boys in blue".

Oliver Conway, London, Uk

Being a California native, I am accustomed to hearing the lamentable number of gun crimes in the US. However, I'm sorry to say that the brutality and frequency of stabbings in the UK, as witnessed during my time there as an MA student, gives me cause for greater concern. When is this going to end?

Rob Hoyer, San Francisco, USA