All news on the topic: Knife crime

Keir Starmer listened to "utterly heart-breaking stories" from relatives of women who were killed by men as he vows to tackling violence against females if he is Prime Minister

Ben Moncrieff and his friends were walking towards a McDonald's in Bath city centre, in the early hours of Saturday, May 6. He was knifed to death by a then 15 year old

Pregnant mum Andreea Pintilli, 29, who was stabbed 'at least five times' on Tuesday morning, is recovering in hospital as doctors checked on the health of her unborn baby

The 17-year-old boy, who has not been officially identified, was found by police officers and paramedics with serious injuries on Sutton high street, but he succumbed to the knife wounds a short while later and was tragically pronounced dead

South Wales Police have arrested a man aged 28 in connection with the stabbing of a 29-year-old woman in the village of Aberfan this morning. The suspect is now in police custody

Boy Y - accused of murdering Brianna Ghey - told fellow defendant Girl X that she was one kill away from being a serial killer, jurors in Manchester heard as they watched his police interview

Sarah Hansford, 44, murdered pensioner Barry Spooner, 74, inside his home in Nottingham and then danced naked in the street just one day later - she has been jailed for 22 years

James Preston, 21, stabbed his friend Joseph Holland, 25, after enjoying a meal together at the Jumbo Chinese Restaurant in Dovecot, Liverpool - Preston has denied murder

Police have warned of a "serious assault" in Aberfan, south Wales, with armed officers on the scene after a reported stabbing with schools in the area put in lockdown

Armed police are hunting a man following the stabbing of a 29-year-old heavily pregnant woman in the street in Aberfan, south Wales, with local schools having been placed in lockdown

Charlie Crosser's mum Tara and dad Martin send him Whatsapp messages and voice notes daily. Charlie died aged just 17 after being stabbed multiple times at a party

Barry Spooner, who served with the Royal Signals Regiment for 12 years, had taken in 44-year-old Sarah Hansford in 2020 as she was homeless and he "took pity" on her, before she later killed him

The 16-year-old boy accused of the murder of transgender teenager Brianna Ghey told police he saw his co-accused stabbing her, Manchester Crown Court heard earlier today

James Preston, 21, accepts inflicting the wounds that killed 25-year-old Joe Holland in the early hours of Thursday, June 8 this year, but denied murder and an alternative count of manslaughter as his trial began at Liverpool Crown Court today

Brianna Ghey was discovered stabbed nearly 30 times with a hunting knife in a park near Warrington, Cheshire, and was declared dead at the scene in February this year

Joshua Jacques, 29, is on trial accused of killing girlfriend Samantha Drummonds and her family in a "violent and brutal" attack - he has pleaded guilty to manslaughter but denies murder

Oday Al-Fayoume filed the lawsuit last month against the suburban Chicago landlord charged in the attack that left his child dead and the boy's mother seriously wounded

Charlie Cosser died at the age of 17 after being stabbed at an end-of-term party over the summer. His parents said they still text him on WhatsApp to keep his memory alive

A man has killed four members of his family, stabbed a fifth, and slashed two police officers before he was shot dead in a Sunday morning rampage.

A British person has been injured and another tourist killed in a hammer and knife attack in central Paris close to the Eiffel Tower before the assailant was arrested

Schoolgirl Brianna Ghey was stabbed 28 times in Culcheth Linear Park, near Warrington, Cheshire, and tragically killed as two other teenagers, named as Girl X and Boy Y, stand trial for her murder

A teenager who was arrested the day after Brianna Ghey was found stabbed in February asked police if she was being held as she had been the last person to see the victim alive

Mehmet Koray Alpergin and girlfriend Gozde Dalbudak were kidnapped on their way home from a date night at an Italian restaurant in Mayfair before the DJ was brutally beaten, throttled, scalded with boiling water, stabbed and maimed.

Lloyd Bradford was high on monkey dust when he tried to murder his friend, who he knew through Stoke-on-Trent's drug-using community, in a shocking knife attack

Ben Moncrieff was 18 when he was killed by a teenage boy who stabbed him once to the chest in Bath city centre on May 6, 2023