‘END THIS CARNAGE’
Secretary Sajid Javid will meet police chiefs to discuss the nation’s growing knife crisis.
The event tomorrow will include police chiefs from areas most affected by the epidemic.
Mr Javid said: “Young people are being murdered across the country and it can’t go on.
“It is vital that we unite to stop this senseless violence.” At the tely devastated. Yousef had only phoned home hours earlier to say he would be home for his tea, but the next knock at the door was officers with the tragic news. It is every parent’s worst nightmare.”
Yousef was an A-level pupil at the elite Manchester Grammar School and dreamed of becoming a heart surgeon.
Greater Manchester Police were yesterday given more time to question two 17-year-old boys arrested on suspicion of murder.
The Star Says: Page 6 weekend a man was charged with murder over a fatal stabbing outside an east London railway station last Tuesday.
Another man was arrested in connection with two stabbings in central London on Saturday night and another man is fighting for his life after an attack in Enfield, north London, on Tuesday.
Those incidents followed the deaths of three teenagers in knife attacks in two weeks in Birmingham, leading to West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson branding it a “national emergency”.
The Home Office said it set out moves to tackle violent crime in October, including a £200million youth endowment fund. The Offensive Weapons Bill will introduce new offences to tackle knife crime and acid attacks.
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FIVE people were arrested after a gang of males armed with knives entered the grounds of Runshaw College in Leyland, Lancs, and threatened students.
A 17-year-old boy was nicked on the arm during the incident and was taken to Chorley Hospital.