tracey miller is taking a call from a teenage gang member. at age 15, tracey, too, was in a gang. owned a gun for protection. i'm not far, i'm going to head over now, yeah? until recently, this 18—year—old — who we're calling samira — was a member of a south london gang. she's now six months‘ pregnant, but says she was groomed into carrying knives at the age of 12 because there was little chance of her being stopped by the police. i'd carry a knife but there'd be guns and, you know... mostly kitchen knives. how big were they? like around this big. and you'd carry them for gang members? for gang members and for my own protection. did you ever think about the implications of carrying a weapon like that and perhaps had you used it, you could have killed somebody or... ..seriously injured someone? when you're in that situation, all you think about‘s yourself, so you don't really care about what happens to the other person or what's going to happen to you later on. how does someone at the age of 12 end up in a gang? if your home life is unstable, then where else can you go? did you see