Knife crime

Knife crime in Britain has doubled in the previous six years, rising above 50,000 incidents for the first time in the recorded history.

An English sheep farmer was horrified to find a gang of “Asian” men slitting the throat of a pregnant ewe in broad daylight near a public footpath. 

Three gang members have been given short sentences for participating in an “unprovoked” attack which saw a teenager hacked and stabbed with machetes and knives in the middle of a crowded McDonald’s in Northampton, England. 

A man who stabbed a police officer in the chest in London has received a prison term of less than three years.

The number of shootings in London rose in 2020, despite the city being placed under draconian coronavirus lockdown measures for a large part of the year.

A mob of “up to 40” males fought a running battle on the streets of London with swords, knives, and broken bottles, despite England’s draconian anti-coronavirus lockdown.

“Gangs of masked” men fought a running battle on the streets of Manchester, England, with “machetes and guns” in what police have described as an “isolated incident”. 

A terrorist asylum seeker who “executed” three men with a knife and wounded three others in a public park in Reading, England has received a rare whole-life sentence.

The brother of a knife-wielding black male shot dead by Irish police — or Garda — said of the officer involved “I want him terminated… I want him finished” to cheers from protesters.

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Australian detectives suspect the deaths of an elderly couple in their Brisbane home is a “terrorism incident” perpetrated by a knife-wielding man who was shot dead by police, officials said on Friday.

Seventeen people were shot, three fatally, over another violent weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago. 

A passenger was stabbed in the face while riding the Red Line train Sunday morning in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.

Lancashire Police say two women were stabbed in an attack inside an English department in Burnley store on Wednesday morning.

Two men were stabbed to death and one woman was shot in London at the weekend on the streets of the British capital despite the city being under lockdown restrictions which should have seen many — if not most —

An unknown perpetrator stabbed a 23-year-old woman in the back outside a French railway station in what is being described as a random act of violence.

Two 15-year-olds accused of stabbing a policewoman in the stomach during a botched robbery have been remanded in youth custody and referred to Crown Court.

Police forces have installed ‘knife arches’ at train stations in England and Wales to tackle violent knife crime.

Carlos Racitalal was convicted of four counts of attempted murder for his attacks, perpetrated on four separate occasions, at Leicestershire Crown Court,

A failed asylum seeker has been jailed after committing a “frenzied and calculated” knife attack on a woman in a bid to prevent her deportation from Britain.

A 21-year-old man allegedly murdered by Afghan migrants aboard a bus was stabbed 99 times, according to a Swedish prosecutor.

Judges have ruled an illegal migrant who stabbed a man to death after he was supposed to be deported can stay in Britain, citing his “human rights”.

Over 100 people have been killed in London this year under the leadership of Mayor Sadiq Khan, with 55 being stabbed to death since the start of the year.

A 21-year-old man was arrested in the city of Montpellier after attempting to hold three police officers at knifepoint while praising and advocating terrorism.

London was marred with bloodshed as a spate of stabbings with machetes, swords, and knives took place throughout the British capital.

Birmingham has become “unsafe”, with violence in the city becoming “worse and worse”, locals have told the British media.

LONDON (AP) – British police arrested a 27-year-old man in the early hours of Monday morning on suspicion of murder and seven counts of attempted murder following a string of stabbings in a busy nightlife district in the central England city of Birmingham over the weekend.

Police now say that they are hunting a single knifeman following eight stabbings, one deadly, in multicultural Birmingham, but will not release a description of the suspect. 

West Midlands Police have confirmed that one man is dead following a night of violence in multicultural Birmingham, and seven others injured — two “seriously”, including a woman.

West Midlands Police had declared a “major incident” in Birmingham, England’s multicultural second city, confirming multiple stabbings.

A gang of about six men viciously attacked a 24-year-old man with baseball bats and knives in front of horrified children in a London park on Friday. The man was attacked in Nursery Row Park, Walworth in South London at