Social media driving increase in weapon-carrying among teens – senior officer

Detective Chief Inspector Campbell Jackson, left, and Superintendent Graeme Gallie speak to the press after two teenagers were found guilty of murdering 16-year-old Kayden Moy last year (Nick Forbes/PA) -

Weapon-carrying by Scottish teenagers is on the increase as they are being “influenced by social media and the internet”, a senior police officer has said.

The comments came after two teenagers were convicted at the High Court in Glasgow of murdering of 16-year-old Kayden Moy, who was fatally stabbed on a beach in North Ayrshire last year.