The rise of extreme knife violence, including machete attacks and torture, has seen hospitals forced to take on “military practice” in order to deal with the level of severe injuries now inflicted on UK streets.
Half of all knife crime in London is carried out by people aged 19 and under, and three quarters of offenders are from minority ethnic groups, the latest figures show.
Court of appeal judges have overturned a two-year suspended sentence on a London teen who attacked a car with a large ‘zombie’ knife in broad daylight, ordering he be imprisoned for three and a half years.
Two men have been sentenced for killing an “innocent bystander” by shooting him and stabbing him twelve times in Enfield, London.
JERUSALEM (AP) – An Israeli court has sentenced a Palestinian man to 18 years in prison for stabbing a British student to death.
Police in London have seen a weekend of violence, with several knife attack victims fighting for their lives while officers opened a murder probe after a woman was found strangled to death in an apartment in the capital’s east.
A man in Australia fatally stabbed himself after a string of violent incidents including theft of two vehicles, several collisions, and a deadly knife attack.
Labour’s London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for the Metropolitan Police’s gangs matrix to be overhauled because the vast majority named are young, black men.
A man has been stabbed in front of Christmas shoppers on a busy London street in broad daylight, as the capital continues to struggle with rising knife violence.
Three people were rushed to hospital after a reported ‘machete’ attack at a health centre in Tower Hamlets, the London Metropolitan Police have confirmed.
Bill Bratton, the former police chief who brought crime under control in New York, has urged British leaders to get a grip on knife crime with a return to “bobbies on the beat”.
Six members of the MS-13 gang are accused of butchering a Massachusetts teenager with a knife as if they were “chopping wood.”
This year is likely to be the worst in nearly a decade for children killed by knife attacks, with 35 already murdered in 2018.
A woman’s flatulence while waiting in line at a Florida dollar store led to her arrest after she allegedly pulled a knife on a store patron who complained about her passing gas.
LONDON (AP) – Officials say a man has been arrested after a British Transport Police officer was stabbed outside a train station in east London.
The number of children admitted to hospital with stabbing injuries has increased 86 per cent in England since 2014, National Health Service (NHS) statistics have revealed, as the country battled a steep rise in knife crime.
A woman was struck over the head with a machete less than four hours after another woman was stabbed to death in south-east London as a violent crime wave in the capital continues.
Ministers have ruled out dropping the “reasonable grounds” requirement for stop and search following left-wing outcry that the tactic is “racist”, despite police pleas to widen the powers.
A family from Romania have left Britain after one of them was murdered in Sadiq Khan’s London, saying the city is “too dangerous”.
Home Secretary Sajid Javid has told London police to get knife crime under control after five fatal stabbings in less than a week, instructing the Met to make “full use” of police powers, including increasing stop and search.
London Children are most at risk of being stabbed as they leave school, new research indicates, prompting calls for new measures to protect youngsters.
London police have launched their fifth murder investigation in a week, after a 16-year-old boy died in a suspected stabbing, and extra officers were taken off leave and deployed to the streets.
Labour’s London Mayor Sadiq Khan has said that it could take a decade to solve London’s knife crime epidemic after the capital saw its fourth stabbing in five days.
A 17-year-old teen has been slain outside a busy London Underground station just hours after a 15-year-old boy was killed just yards from his home as London’s violent crime wave continues.
Children as young as nine are carrying knives and 69,000 a year are wounded by blades as areas turn into a “Wild West” thanks to the UK’s violent crime wave, a senior police officer has said.
Armed police stormed Sony’s London headquarters today after a ‘bloody knife fight’ broke out between kitchen staff in the building’s canteen, according to reports.
A violent London gang which terrorised businesses with a fake handgun, hammer, and samurai sword in a campaign of “frightening armed robberies” has been jailed.
A woman wielding a kitchen knife stabbed at least 14 children at a Kindergarten in Chongqing in central China, local police revealed on Friday.
Knife crime in England and Wales soared in the same year that stop and search by police fell to its lowest, according to statistics.
A teenager has been stabbed to death in South London on Monday evening in suspected gang-related “hit.”
