Samurai sword, meat cleavers, knuckle duster & six bullets handed in to cops

A GRIM arsenal of weapons have been handed into Nuneaton Police Station including two meat cleavers, one samurai sword, one knuckle duster and six BULLETS.

A month-long knife amnesty came to an end on Monday and police have revealed that 30 knives, one knuckle duster and the bullets were handed into the surrender bin at the Vicarage Streetbased station.

Included within the knives were two throwing knives, two machetes, one samurai sword, one meat cleaver and one flick knife.

They, along with more than 500 others handed in at stations across Warwickshire and West Mercia, will now be given to the British Ironwork Centre in Oswestry where they will be used to build a plinth for a 20-foot high guardian angel sculpture.

The family of Morgan Hehir , the talented musician who died after being brutally stabbed in Pool Bank Street on Halloween 2015, have previously visited to the ‘knife angel’ and spoke of its importance in raising awareness into the devastating consequences of knife crime.

Sadly, the borough continues to be marred by knife crime, with statistics showing that 42 per cent of all recorded knife crime in the north of Warwickshire in 2016/17 took place in Nuneaton and Bedworth. But, police chiefs hope that the knife amnesty, ran as part of the national ‘Operation Sceptre’ , will help reduce knife crime.

Chief Inspector Sharon Canning said: “The streets of the Warwickshire and West Mercia policing areas are safer following this campaign.

“Each knife surrendered represents one less chance of another life being ended or ruined by knife crime.

“As well as taking more than 600 knives off the streets this operation has also given us the opportunity to raise awareness of the dangers of knife crime and the risk of carrying a knife. Hopefully, in future, people will think twice about carrying a knife.”