Knife crime

As violent crime continues to surge across France, it is estimated that as many as 120 knife attacks occur on average per day across the country.

Three people are in life-threatening condition, including a 15-year-old boy, after a series of stabbings took place within the span of 90 minutes, covering the streets of London with blood.

A mother was allegedly slashed in the face by a passenger after her child threw up inside a bus in Brooklyn, New York, Tuesday. 

A 16-year-old boy was stabbed to death by a man wielding a machete in front of commuters at a busy tube station in South London.

The number of knife crime-related incidents in England and Wales has reached a record high, rising by seven per cent over the previous year recorded.

Three men believed to be from the Sikh community were stabbed to death last night in a bloody knife attack in East London.

The first 2020 of London’s ongoing crimewave has been named as Takieddine Boudhane. A police manhunt is underway.

The number of people murdered in London has reached its highest level in a decade under the leadership of Mayor Sadiq Khan, with 149 people losing their lives in 2019.

Five London gang members have been convicted of murder in connection with a brutal attack which left one man dead and another with life-changing injuries.

The British cinema chain Cineworld has suspended screenings of gang movie Blue Story at one of their theatres in Nottingham, England, following a stabbing during the end credits.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Dutch police arrested a 35-year-old homeless man Saturday on suspicion of stabbing three teens on a street in The Hague that was crowded with Black Friday shoppers.

The London Bridge attack on November 29, 2019, comes as knife crime is increased 80 percent in England and Wales.

Four men appeared in a UK court this week, charged with their alleged roles in a series of gun and machete attacks in Manchester.

Following the shocking display of violence by machete-clad youths at a cinema in Birmingham, two cinema chains have decided to pull screenings of the BBC backed gangster film, Blue Story.

The number of fatal teenage stabbings in London has reached an 11-year high, with 23 teenagers murdered since January.

In another horrifying instance of knife crime in the UK, an entertainment complex in Birmingham was evacuated after around 100 people, some carrying machetes, stormed the cinema and began brawling over the release of a new gangster movie.

The son of former German president Richard von Weizsaecker was stabbed to death while he was giving a lecture at a hospital in Berlin where he worked as a head physician, police said Wednesday.

Svenson Ong-a-Kwie, 19, and Arron Isaacs, 17 have been given life sentences for stabbing Jodie Chesney, a 17-year-old girl to death.

A 20-strong gang set upon four tree surgeons in Rochdale, England, calling them “white bastards” and cutting off a teenage worker’s hand with an axe.

A man who stabbed a woman seven times after she turned down his romantic overtures, suspecting she had done so “because I am black”, has been convicted of attempted murder.

Berliners have expressed disbelief after a Syrian migrant who stormed a synagogue with a knife yelling “Allah hu Akbar!” was freed from jail only a day later.

BBC analysis has revealed that London has 16 of the top 25 knife crime hot spots in England and Wales.

The man who stabbed four people to death in the Paris police headquarters was a convert to Islam enraged by a reprimand from a female colleague, according to reports.

FBI crime stats for 2018 show over five times as many people were killed with knives and/or other cutting instruments than were killed with rifles.

Suffolk police are seeking the families of two boys aged seven and 12 who held a woman at knifepoint before stealing her car.

A 16-strong gang armed with knives targetted a group of young athletes in London’s Finsbury Park, robbing and threatening to kill three white people in the group but telling the black people with them “You’re good.”  

The homicide rate in London this year is on course to surpass that of 2018, which had seen the highest level of violent killings in a decade.

The Church of England has called for a ban on pointed kitchen knives to stop stabbings, saying that no one needs a pointed knife in modern times.

An English police force has stopped publishing pictures of knives confiscated during weapons seizures to “help reduce the fear of knives”.

President Donald Trump defended his decision to golf on the Labor Day weekend, after the Mayor of increasingly crime-stricken Brit capital London Sadiq Khan criticized the president.