On #bbcqt former head of the Commission for Racial Equality Trevor Phillips said "there are three young people, mostly young men, dying in this city [London] every week from knife crimes.”
The latest official figures published yesterday show that 71 homicides involving a knife were recorded by the Metropolitan Police between October 2018 and September 2019 -an average of 1.3 a week ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…
BBC London research for the whole of 2019 found there were 94 fatal stabbings in London in total - 1.8 a week on average. 23 were teenagers - an average of a bit less than one fatal stabbing a fortnight. The majority were young men and boys bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
Across 2019 the Metropolitan Police recorded 146 homicides - an average of just under 3 a week met.police.uk/sd/stats-and-d…
That will include all ages and genders and don't all involve knives. In 2018, for example, of 79 killings, 29 were domestic-abuse related. The majority of those victims were women
