A history of bad behaviour in youth raises the risk of dying at a young age and not just from car crashes and drunken pub brawls, a new study suggests.

The finding comes from a UK study that followed 411 boys from South London in 1961 when they were either eight or nine years old.

Those who displayed antisocial behaviour at age 10 such as skipping school or being dishonest and were then convicted of a crime by the age of 18 had a one in six chance (16.3%) of being either dead or disabled before they 48.