In 2007 - 27 Teenagers were stabbed to death in London

The first fatal stabbing that happened in the UK in 2008 was in the early hours of the New Year!

3 more fatal stabbings happened in the UK within the first week

In the UK knife crime happens every 24 minutes -

in London it is every 50 minutes

From July 2007 - October 2007 there were 5,500 serious knife crimes.

On Bank Holiday 2006 (27th-29th May 06) the police recorded 50 knife attacks.

Most people who are at risk are Males aged between 14-24.

These are just some of the facts. Knife crime affects everyone, no matter who you are. Do not think, just because you are a girl, or you are over 30 that you will be excused from it.

A survey was taken with 4,715 pupils in school and 687 excluded pupils aged 11-16 who were asked “if they had carried or used a weapon... Like a gun or knife:-

28% of children in schools and 57% who were excluded said they have carried a knife in the last year.

9% if school children and 30% of excluded said they carried a flick knife (which is illegal).

3% in school and 14% excluded said they used a knife against another person.

3% in school and 21% excluded said they had threatened another person with a weapon.

More school children who carried a knife were victimised than those who didn’t carry one.

62% of children who were excluded were a victim carried a knife compared with the 51% who didn’t.

15% of children in schools felt “a bit” or “very unsafe” according to the Youth Justice Board.

“A total of 319 people - 228 adults and 91 youths under 18 - were found in possession of a sharp instrument by Met Police during April - representing an ‘average’ month.” (The London Paper, Monday 16th June)