Official rebuke for Mayor’s declare of ‘falling’ knife crime Categorical Instances

In the meantime, more moderen figures issued by the Workplace for Nationwide Statistics have proven an extra giant rise in knife crime in London with 13,503 blade offences recorded within the capital within the 12 months to the top of June. That was 21 per cent up on the earlier 12 months and included 7,966 knife-enabled robberies, which represented a 36 per cent leap in such offending.