London's knife crime epidemic: Campaigners call for action
Fresh pleas following a surge in offences in the capital
The Standard · Rachelle Abbott
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There are growing calls for urgent action to tackle the capital’s issue with knife crime.
Figures recently released from the Office for National Statistics, show a 22 per cent rise in knife crime in the capital in the 12 months to the end of September last year.
It comes after the body of a teenager, 19-year-old Tyler Donnelly, was discovered by joggers in a park in Feltham on Thursday, he had been stabbed to death.
Our Crime Correspondent, Anthony France, shares his insight.
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