 There was wide commentary in the news media about the social situation in and around Moston . Writing in The Times , Jon Ronson focused on Manchester 's apparent economic imbalance , pointing out that while " superficially , it is a city of growth " — hosting international environmental conferences in 1993 and bidding to host the 2000 Olympic Games — this could not disguise the realities of the poor quality of " built @-@ to @-@ collapse " housing , the city council 's policy on homelessness , poverty , street violence and drug culture , all of which played parts in the events leading up to Capper 's murder . The city , he said , had violent ' no @-@ go ' areas , where " you can expect to be mugged , " created through drug abuse and hopelessness , and populated by people who " don 't work , have no money , and rarely leave the houses that they find themselves living in before dark . " Ronson highlighted a city of contrasts , where " expensive canal @-@ side cafes are springing up faster than you can count them : the joke around town is that you can sip cappuccino all day and gaze out at the corpses floating past . " David Ward , writing in The Guardian , similarly drew attention to the housing policies , and quoted an older Moston resident as saying : " These people are moving in and out every three months . They 're illiterate half of them — just shagging and having kids . " The Daily Mail – in what Barker and Petley called " ideological overdrive " – described Capper 's killers as " the product of a society that tolerates petty crime , the break @-@ up of families and feckless spending ... Most of Suzanne 's tormentors were on social security ... [ and belong to ] an underclass which is a grave threat to Britain 's future . " Author Carol Anne Davis agreed that when looking for answers about how this crime came about one need only " look at the upbringings of these women who were single parents to three children by their mid twenties , had teenage boyfriends who were barely legal and who supported themselves through drug dealing and theft . " 
