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Spraying Power

What motivates graffiti artists? Vicky Allan tracks down some elusive devotees

SHORTLY after we moved to Leith, I noticed some graffiti on our street saying "Martin's child, drugged, raped, murdered". I had only just had a baby and wondered, momentarily, about what kind of place I had brought my family to.