WE LL GET KIDS STAB VESTS FOR CLASSES
Parents fear knife epidemic
PARENTS plan to buy their sons stab-proof vests to safeguard them from Britain’s knife-crime epidemic.
The family of murdered male model Harry Uzoka,
25, said the desperate measure was due to the climate of fear on the streets.
This year London clocked up
100 homicides faster than at any time in the past decade.
Most of those – 64 – were stabbings. Harry, who modelled for Alexander McQueen, was killed by a catwalk rival in a row over his girlfriend.
He was stabbed through the heart by George Koh, 24, outside his home in Shepherd’s Bush, west London, on January
11. Koh and his accomplice Merse Dikanda were both jailed for life for murder last week.
Jonathan Okigbo was jailed for 14 years after he was cleared of murder, but found guilty of manslaughter. Sentencing them at the Old Bailey, Judge Wendy Joseph said Mr Uzoka’s family had told of the fear over knife crime. She said: “They describe the impact of such offending on the community, children who are frightened to go out, parents who are thinking of buying their sons stab-proof vests just to ensure they are safe to go about their everyday lives.
“I have heard moving statements from his mother and his cousin. Their pain and anguish are palpable.”