Call to treat knives as seriously as guns

A MOTHER today c alled for knife offences to be treated as seriously as gun crime after the teenager who stabbed her disabled son “for fun” avoided trial for attempted murder.

Joshua Clements, 18, was charged with attempted murder and GBH after he attacked passers-by with a 10-inch blade when a water fight in Hyde Park flared into violence last month.

He was allowed to plead guilty to lesser offences after the Crown Prosecution Service accepted a plea deal.