Knife crime - Page 7

The first day of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trip to Sadiq Khan’s London was marked by seven “major incidents” including a shooting, multiple stabbings, and a knifeman roving through Gatwick Airport.

Police are seeking an “Asian male” with a “foreign accent” who held a knife to the throat of a 19-month baby during a “terrifying” daylight street robbery in Normanby, England. 

Gang members in London and the wider country are taking part in a deadly game in which they receive varying points for stabbing or shooting victims in different parts of the body.

Britains violent crime wave continues as the number of fatal stabbings across the country reached 100 this week according to an analysis by the BBC.

Two German regions are looking to ban the carrying of knives in public places due to an explosion in the number of violent attacks.

‘Child-centred’ teaching methods championed by the progressive-left have been “maximising misbehaviour”in UK schools, the Department for Education’s (DfE) behaviour tsar has warned.

Almost 500 knives have been seized from people in London’s primary family court in just a four-month period, according to the President of the Family Division.

A twelfth arrest has been made in London after a man was stabbed to death in Hackney, represented by Labour’s Diane Abbott in the House of Commons.

Violent crime across England and Wales has risen by one fifth in one year, the latest figures show.

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. 

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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.