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Harry Brown

Plot: In England, retired Royal Marine Harry Brown spends his lonely life between the hospital, where his beloved wife Kath is terminally ill, and playing chess with his only friend Leonard Attwell in the Barge pub owned by Sid Rourke. After the death of Kath, Len tells his grieving friend that the local gang is harassing him and he is carrying an old bayonet for self-defense; the widower suggests him to go to the police. When Len is beaten, then stabbed to death in an underground passage, Inspector Alice Frampton and her partner Sergeant Terry Hicock are sent to investigate. They pay Harry a visit but don't have good news; the police have not found any other evidence, other than the bayonet, in order to arrest the hoodlums. This mean that should the case go to trial the gang would claim self-defense. Harry Brown sees that justice will not be granted and decides to take matters into his own hands.                Cast: Michael Caine as Harold "Harry" Brown Emily M

Representation: Gangs

"Gang of boys as young as nine leave man with broken ribs in horrific mugging" A gang of boys as young as nine broke a man’s ribs in a violent robbery, police said. The victim, a 58-year-old man, was walking from West Ashland along the Redway which runs between V7 Saxon Street and H9 Groveway in Milton Keynes , Buckinghamshire, when he was set upon by seven youths. He was struck from behind and knocked to the ground where the group continued to assault him before stealing his bag during the attack at about 9.55pm on Monday. Detective Constable Katrina Walmsley, of Thames Valley Police, said: "The group cowardly attacked the victim from behind and then continued to assault him as he lay on the ground and tried to get up. "The offenders are between about nine years old to about 15 years old. Unfortunately there are no other descriptions of the offenders at this time but I am confident that someone knows who they are. "The bag that was stolen is qui