That was the opinion of? ?Richard Taylor,? ?Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s newly-hired advisor on knife crime.?
Richard Taylor told the Home Affairs Committee:? “?I have young people who I mentor and I see them go up and buy the games and it saddens me that they are being able to have such a negative impact.?”
According to? ?The Telegraph,? ?Taylor told MPs that? ?games with mature content? ?are? “?too cheap?”?,? ?and proposed that? ?taxes on them should be? “?very high?”?.? ?He did not,? ?however,? ?make any proposals on how such games could be classified,? ?or how much tax should be inflated for such games.
Taylor was the father of? ?Damilola,? ?a Nigerian schoolboy who? ?was stabbed to death in? ?November? ?2000.? ?Taylor has since campaigned to? ?turn youths away from crime,? ?particularly violent crime. As a Government advisor,? ?Taylor? ?is now preparing a manifesto? ?which he will? ?present to the Prime Minister.?