knife crime

Children as young as twelve could be subjected to curfews and social media bans, under new government measures designed to crack down on knife crime.

Sajid Javid has promised £17 millon as part of an early intervention youth fund to help tackle knife crime problem.

In London, two boys have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a teenager was stabbed multiple times. A 14-year-old boy is in hospital in a serious but stable condition after the attack in Archway, north London, on Sunday.

Two teenagers have been jailed for more than 20 years each after stabbing a charity worker to death during a violent robbery spree in west London. Nathan Gilmaney, now 19, and Troy Thomas, 18, injured four others as they rode around on a moped, stuffing their pockets with valuables. The judge described CCTV footage of…

Shaun Bailey is a Conservative member of the London Assembly and a former youth worker. Eliza Rebeiro set up Lives Not Knives, a charity which diverts young people from crime.

The long summer holidays might sound like an idyllic prospect. But sadly for many young people, it’s a different story. Two in three disadvantaged children are afraid of being attacked or exploited by gangs. That’s just one of the stark findings by the Childhood Trust, which surveyed 12,000 children through the charities it supports. The trust…

Amid the recent wave of knife and gun crime on Britain’s streets, relations between police and local communities have rarely been under such scrutiny. And there are growing calls to strengthen neighbourhood policing and build trust. That is one of the roles being played by the Volunteer Police Cadets, an organisation that encourages teenagers from…

Knife crime is up. Firearms offences are up. And the number of burglaries have soared. New official statistics show that across England and Wales there’s been a worrying rise in police recorded violence – even though a separate survey says the overall level of crime has remained broadly stable. Labour have accused the Conservatives of…

The London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for police to carry out more stop and searches of people they suspect of carrying a weapon – to help tackle the rise in gun and knife attacks. 300 more officers are being deployed in areas which have been worst affected. The Met Commissioner Cressida Dick insisted that…

A senior police officer has appealed for help to tackle knife crime – after what police called a “truly unusual” number of fatal stabbings over New Year. Four young men died in London on New Year’s Eve and the early hours of January 1st, while there were other knife attacks around the country. The Met’s…