Could the Middlesbrough crime spree spread?

The first people I spoke to in Middlesbrough told me to fuck off. He was drinking lager and kicking a tennis ball for a cocker spaniel; she was sitting outside a sweet shop. They were polite when I said hello and angry when I explained why I was there. “Journalists aren’t welcome ’round here,” he said. Journalists had come in from outside and twisted the facts, she said, causing more distress for grieving locals. A few dozen meters away, crime scene investigators in white boiler suits and blue helmets had broken from their work to drink Fanta. Behind them stood the charred remains of a modest suburban home. Last Wednesday, Natalie McDonald and her seven-year-old niece, Valentina Foster, had been killed as it burned. Two men were arrested in the aftermath on suspicion of murder; once has si