TEENAGERS WHO ARE STILL GETTING AWAY WITH IT
TEENAGERS who carry knives are routinely being spared jail in magistrates’ courts across the country.
There is a minimum six-month prison sentence for adults convicted for the second time of carrying a knife, while youths face at least a four-month detention and training order.
But last week when the Daily Mail attended magistrates’ and youth courts across the UK, repeat offenders regularly escaped jail. ÷Birmingham magistrates: Kyle Davis, 18, was seen outside court smirking and posing for a selfie on the steps of after he was handed a six-month prison sentence suspended for two years for his second knife offence. His case was highlighted by the Mail last week. ÷Liverpool youth court: A 16-year-old student was given a 12-month referral order for knifing a 15-year-old boy in the hand during a classroom row. ÷Highbury Corner youth court, north London: A 16-year-old from Camden, caught twice with kitchen knives, was
spared jail despite admitting that he would not comply with his 12-month intensive referral order and threemonth curfew. ÷Highbury Corner youth court: A 15year-old boy caught with a lock knife – the second time in less than a year that he had been found with a knife – was given a nine-month referral order. ÷Birmingham magistrates: Bailey Bell, 19, was spared jail and given a 12-month community order for carrying an eight-inch carving knife and cannabis around Birmingham city centre. ÷Willesden youth court, north-west London: A 13-year-old boy caught with a hunting knife with a ten-inch blade in a McDonald’s restaurant was let off with a 12-month referral order. He had received a caution for bringing a kitchen knife into his school in 2017. ÷Guildford youth court, Surrey: A 17year-old drug dealer caught with a knife and cocaine was given a 12-month youth rehabilitation order. He had a previous conviction for carrying a baton.