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A man injured 15 women, three seriously, with a butcher knife and a bread knife in a Rackhams department store. [27] 28 March 1994: Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England 1 2 3: One girl was killed and two others injured when a masked man armed with a shotgun and knives burst into their classroom at Hall Garth School and stabbed them. [28]
Of the 48,716 knife crime offences in the year to September 2023, 29% (13,957) were recorded by the Metropolitan Police, 11% (5,239) by West Midlands Police, and 5% (2,373) by West Yorkshire Police.
Of the 50,510 knife crime offences in England and Wales in 2023/24, 30% (14,961) were recorded by the Metropolitan Police, 10% (5,268) by West Midlands Police and 5% (2,321) by West Yorkshire Police.
An anti-knife crime demonstration in Wood Green, North London, October 2019. The United Kingdom is a political union of four different countries, with three distinct (different) legal jurisdictions (England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland). As such the law related to the purchasing and possession of weapons (such as knives) varies ...
Crime Survey figures over the years. The Crime Survey for England and Wales is an attempt to measure both the amount of crime, and the impact of crime on England and Wales. . The original survey (carried out in 1982, to cover the 1981 year) covered all three judicial areas of the UK, and was therefore referred to as the British Crime Survey, but now it only covers England and Wal
The simple term “knife crime” could cover a variety of criminal offences — from a homicide by stabbing to possession of a bladed article in a public place (as outlined in the Criminal ...
“Knife-enabled" crime — in which knives were used to commit crimes or someone was caught illegally possessing one — rose 7% in England and Wales last year," the government said last month ...
This is a list of major crimes in the United Kingdom and Crown dependencies that received significant media coverage and/or led to changes in legislation. Legally each deliberate and unlawful killing of a human being is murder ; [ 1 ] there is no crime of assassination or serial killing as such, for example.