Murder of teenage boy on London street exposes city's great wealth divide

The killing of Alan Cartwright on Caledonian Road, next to the huge redevelopment of King's Cross, was committed in a working-class area rich in heritage and community, but increasingly surrounded by gentrified neighbours There is an inescapably nightmarish quality to CCTV footage of a terrible crime, the sense of ordinary life impotently observed at the very moment tragedy intrudes. Seldom has such footage been so haunting as that which captured the killing of 15-year-old Alan Cartwright at abo...