Bracelet blades selling at pocket money prices
A WEBSITE has been slated for selling bracelets with knives hidden inside.
When worn, they look like a fashion item – and they are on sale at prices children can afford.
Our reporter was able to order several and had them delivered to his home without being asked to enter an ID or confirm his age.
Campaigners want the website selling them to be investigated.
With blade attacks at record levels, Giovanni Soffietto from the Fighting Chance Foundation said: “There’s little wonder knife crime continues to poison childhoods and communities with items such as these being readily available.
“An item like this could certainly be brought into a school.”
Lynne Baird lost her son to knife crime. She said: “They need to be banned immediately.”
Last May a new law banned the online sale of bladed products without verification that the buyer is over 18.
Delivery of knives to residential premises was also outlawed. But the
“survival bracelets”, with 1.5in blades, can be bought online from shopping website Wish.com without going through any age checks.
The e-commerce platform, which advertises on social media, has got 70million active users.
Former gang member turned knife campaigner Darryl Laycock called the bracelets “potential murder weapons”.
He said: “Kids can buy it for their dinner money.”
Lynn’s 26-year-old son Daniel died after being stabbed in the heart in Digbeth, Birmingham, in 2017.
She said: “I’m terrified something like this is out there and can be purchased so easily.”
Promising to remove the listings from the internet, a spokesman for Wish.com website told us: “Wish takes this issue very seriously and has taken a number of steps to prevent the listing or sale of any illegal knives or weapons on the UK platform.
“Such listings violate our merchant terms of service.”