Knife crime

In another horrifying example of knife crime in the UK, a man was slashed to death with a machete on the streets of Wolverhampton, England.

Glasgow saw another stabbing on Sunday in what police are describing as a “targeted attack”. The incident comes just days after a knife rampage by a Sudanese migrant horrified the Scottish city.

An asylum seeker who stabbed six people including a police officer at the Glasgow hotel where he was being accommodated free of charge has been named as Badreddin Abadlla Adam.

The suspect in a stabbing spree in Glasgow, Scotland, was a Sudanese man who had complained of being “very hungry” at the hotel which was housing him and other asylum seekers during the coronavirus lockdown. 

Khairi Saadallah, the Libyan refugee who has been detained on suspicion of perpetrating the knife attack in Reading, was released early from prison, was enrolled in the government’s Prevent deradicalisation scheme, and is believed to have been known to the UK’s security services as a possible terror suspect before the attack.

A 39-year-old American man has been identified as one of the victims of a vicious knife attack in Reading, which authorities are terming a “terrorist incident” that saw three people die and another three left injured. Joe Ritchie-Bennett, a native

The suspect in a knife rampage in Reading, England, which left three dead and three injured has been named as Khairi Saadallah, described by the BBC as a “25-year-old Libyan national from Reading”.

Police have officially declared a deadly stabbing spree in Reading, England, a “terrorist incident”. Video footage on social media showed multiple people with serious injuries being treated by emergency workers in Forbury Gardens after a reportedly unrelated Black Lives Matter event in the area.

A 30-year-old Albanian migrant has been charged with the murder of seven-year-old Emily Jones on Mother’s Day, according to reports. 

A National Health Service (NHS) worker was stabbed to death in a “ferocious assault” by a gang wearing medical masks just days before the funeral of his father, who succumbed the Chinese coronavirus, was due to take place.

Police were called to the scene in Ilford, London on Sunday evening after neighbours heard a woman screaming for help.

“Higher-harm” crimes committed with knives have risen 49 per cent in less than a decade and is now at a historic high, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed.

Police shot dead an Afghan asylum seeker in the no-go Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis after he attacked a mounted police patrol while armed with a knife.

Romans-sur-Isère (France) (AFP) — A Sudanese refugee went on a knife rampage in a town in southeastern France on Saturday, killing two people in what is being treated as a terrorist attack.

A knife-wielding Sudanese migrant shouting “Allahu Akbar!” has stabbed two people to death and wounded “at least” seven others in France.

LONDON (AP) – A 29-year-old man appeared in court Saturday, charged with stabbing an official at one of London’s biggest mosques during afternoon prayers.

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.