Gangsters warn youth of perils of membership

DEATH or prison is the only fate that awaits any Irish youth who joins a gang, former gangsters warned yesterday.

More than 60 ex-gang members from around the world were among 200 people who attended the start of an international conference in Dublin yesterday.

The Summit Against Violent Extremism, organised by Google Ideas, a think-tank, was also attended by victims of terrorism, including the September 11 attacks in the US and the July 2005 London bombings.