London's knife crime epidemic: Campaigners call for action

London's knife crime epidemic: Campaigners call for action

By The Evening Standard

There are growing calls for urgent action to tackle the capital’s issue with knife crime.


Figures recently released from the Office for National Statistics, show a 22 per cent rise in knife crime in the capital in the 12 months to the end of September last year. 


It comes after the body of a teenager, 19-year-old Tyler Donnelly, was discovered by joggers in a park in Feltham on Thursday, he had been stabbed to death. 


Our Crime Correspondent, Anthony France, shares his insight.


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