It’s time we cracked down on people carrying knives
From our UK edition
An 18-year-old girl stabbed in the back in the West Midlands; three people stabbed at a party in Borough; a teenage boy left fighting for his life in New Cross; a police officer attacked with a machete in Leyton – and that is just in the past week alone. Over the past five years offences involving knives have soared by 74 per cent, from 25,600 in 2013/14 to 44,500 in 2018. Knife offences last year included 252 homicides and 368 attempted murders. Knives were used in more than 400 rapes in the year and 150 other sexual assaults.
