Knife crime

As knife crime continues to be a major issue in Germany, one German women’s magazine has written an article on the treatment of stab wounds in its “health and fitness” section.

Reports from around the UK have revealed a surge of knife crimes, including attacks involving machetes, highlighting the true nationwide nature of the epidemic. 

What I particularly cherish about Stephen Lawrence Day is the way it captures so perfectly almost everything that is wrong not just with Theresa May’s government in particular but with modern Britain in general, writes James Delingpole.

A Freedom of Information request by the London Evening Standard has revealed there are an average of 40 knife related incidents every day in the British capital.

An arrest has been made in Edmonton after a fifth stabbing this week was reported in the area of North London earlier today.

British police are to get new powers to stop and search potential suspects, particularly to discover if they are carrying deadly weapons, in a policy u-turn by political leaders who have curtailed it in the past for political reasons. 

The Metropolitan Police are hunting a 6’3″ black male suspect after four people were approached from behind and stabbed, seemingly at random, in the Edmonton area of London.

A mosque in central London was sealed off after a man was stabbed to death in the street outside, the latest of a long series of knife crimes in the capital.

Knife and other weapons offences in Britain are at their highest level since 2009, according to new statistics, with over a fifth of culprits being under 18.

Tory MP Scott Mann has attracted mocking on social media after calling for strict new knife control measures including for every blade sold in the UK to be fitted with GPS tracking systems.

A 20-year-old Croatian citizen has appeared in court for the knife murder of 17-year-old Jodie Chesney in Romford, London.

BERLIN (AP) – A mayor in Germany has been put under police protection after receiving threats following the killing of a young woman earlier this week.

Another teenager has been stabbed to death in London, as Britain remains in the grip of a violent knife crime epidemic.

Children in high knife-crime areas are being taught how to deliver first aid to stab victims, details of the programme emerging less than a week after two teenagers were stabbed to death in separate attacks and a knife gang entered school grounds and threatened pupils.

The number of children being treated at hospital in the UK with stab wounds has nearly doubled in five years.

The Metropolitan Police have issued a description of the killer who stabbed a 17-year-old girl to death in Romford, London.

Trevor Phillips has accused the BBC of “whitewashing” crime stories by not addressing the high number of black-on-black stabbings, and warned politicians and police to stop ignoring the links between race and gang violence. 

An anti-violence campaigner has criticised London’s Labour mayor Sadiq Khan for his failure to tackle knife crime in the capital.

A 20-year-old man has been stabbed to death near Ilford station in east London, the fifth stabbing in 24 hours in the capital.

A teenager has died after he and another individual were attacked by a group armed with “at least one firearm, knives, and a samurai sword” in London.

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.