Knife crime

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.

VILLEURBANNE, France (AP) – Police detained an Afghan man seeking asylum in France after one person was fatally stabbed and nine others injured Saturday outside a subway station in a suburb of Lyon, authorities said. The reason for the attack was unclear.

Afghan asylum seeker Samiualahq Akbari, who asked victims if they were “English” before attempting to stab them, has been jailed for 21 years.

Labour’s David Lammy MP launched into a furious tirade against a Government anti-knife campaign being rolled out in chicken shops, suggesting it plays into racist tropes about black people. 

A Syrian migrant smuggled into Sweden by a journalist working for Sweden’s national broadcaster has been sentenced in court for knife crimes.

Graphic video of a violent machete attack on an unarmed police officer in London has emerged, as officers come forward to express concern over rising violence against colleagues.

A police officer is in critical condition after a “sudden and brutal” machete attack in Leyton, east London.

Following a wave of serious knife crime, healthcare centres in the Swedish city of Gothenberg say they are running low on blood reserves.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called for an increase in stop and search, longer prison sentences for perpetrators who commit violent and sexual crimes, and pledged to put 20,000 new police officers on the streets of Britain to fight the rising tide of violent crime in the country.

A New Jersey woman was allegedly slashed in the face by a knife-wielding stranger near the Port Authority Bus Terminal on Wednesday night.

The man who murdered a New York teenager he met on Instagram posted images of her dead body online Sunday. 

Senior doctors in the Welsh capital of Cardiff have reported a rise in “punishment stabbings” designed to maim their victims, and that they are dealing with knife wounds almost every week.

Police in London are investigating four suspected murders over the course of the weekend, including a fatal shooting.

Judges have blocked the deportation of a Romanian criminal convicted of a string of offences including burglary, robbery, and possession of a knife, citing European Union law.

An Afghan asylum seeker stalked random people in Croydon, south London, asking them if they were English and stabbing them if they said yes, prosecutors have claimed.

The Metropolitan Police Service has arrested a 34-year-old man after he allegedly drew a knife and threatened to behead a Jewish man in east London.

The unborn baby of a pregnant woman stabbed to death at her home in Croydon, south London, is in critical condition after being delivered by emergency services at the murder scene.

An elderly donkey which gave children rides around London’s Blackheath for two decades has been stabbed as part of what his owner suspects was a “sickening gang initiation”.

A 38-year-old man has been stabbed to death after a fight in a London neighbourhood that one witness described as a “full-on battle”.