All news on the topic: Knife crime
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Mum using clothes horse as makeshift defence from teens 'taking drugs' outside
Veronica Williams says she pushes the clothes horse against the door to alert her if someone breaks into her home in a housing estate in Birmingham near where a man was stabbed last week
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Two boys butchered and mutilated for body parts for witchdoctor's black magic
WARNING UPSETTING CONTENT: Nqobile Zulu, 5, and his pal Tshiamo Rabanye, 6, bled out after they had their noses, lips and genitals cut off before having their throats slit in a horrific black magic ritual in Soweto, South Africa
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Woman's murder at hands of ex-con neighbour recorded on sleep app on her phone
Juliana Bonilla-Herrera fled the worrying crime levels in her native Colombia and built a safe and happy life for herself in New Zealand – but then a sinister stranger moved in next door
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Deadly zombie knives being sold to kids on apps with sick 'pizza-delivery' style
'Zombie knives' are weapons which are particularly dangerous, often having serrated edges. Our reporter, posing as a 17-year-old, was offered four 40 inch weapons for £55
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Son of 'Patrick Mackay's victim' says serial killer 'needs to stay locked up'
Patrick Mackay has been in jail for 47 years after being convicted of three murders - and Victor Davies, who is convinced his mum Ivy also died at the killer's hands, said he must remain in jail
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'I've cried daily since my son was murdered – we need tougher laws on knives'
Tyrone Clarke was stabbed to death by 20 people two decades ago, with many of her son's killers still at large. Mum Lorraine Fraser says it's time for reform on knife crime
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Stephen Lawrence's family's fight for justice 30 years on from murder
Stephen Lawrence was 18 when he was murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Eltham, South West London on April 22, 1993
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Who killed Stephen Lawrence and where his murderers are now
Two of the five main suspects in Stephen Lawrence's murder were named Gary Dobson and they were the only ones ever convicted for murder 19 years after the killing
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Stephen Lawrence pal eyeing London Mayor bid as 'nothing's changed' 30 years on
Duwayne Brooks had mayoral ambitions in 2018 but commitments took him abroad at short notice. But now he appears determined to channel his energy into holding the police to account
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Man murdered wife after she predicted own death in chilling WhatsApp message
Asim Hasan stabbed wife Aaisha Hasan 36 times at a flat in east London and was found guilty of murder despite telling the Old Bailey he had not intended to seriously hurt her
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Girl, 7, stabbed 37 times in abandoned warehouse 'skipped to her death'
Nikki Allan, seven, was found dead in a derelict building near her home in Sunderland in 1992, with modern scientific testing having found the DNA of David Thomas Boyd on her clothes, a court heard
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Dad of boy murdered by 12-inch zombie knife as he broke up a fight issues plea
A-Level student Malcolm Mide-Madariola, 17, had stepped in to stop a fight in 2018 when he was stabbed in the heart with the blade, which can be bought online for around £20
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'Tough action needs to be taken on knife crime before more young people die'
Eva Simpson is shocked by the latest youth stabbing - which happened just where her young son had been minutes beforehand
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Man 'murdered' after being rammed off road in car and stabbed to death
A man in his 50s was fatally attacked in Solihull, West Midlands, on Tuesday evening - with police having launched a murder investigation after multiple people fled the scene
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Zombie knives and machetes still killing kids after 5 Tory promises to ban them
Botched Tory legislation means that seven years after they first promised to ban zombie knives and machetes the horrific weapons are still available to criminals
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Stephen Lawrence cop probed theory of sixth attacker - but was told to retire
Former Det Chief Insp Clive Driscoll snared two of the racist murderers in 2012 and was investigating an alleged sixth member of the gang at the time, but he was told to retire by the Met in 2014
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Boy, 14, who yelled 'I'm going to wet you' guilty of murdering fellow teen
Tomasz Oleszak, 14, collapsed after being stabbed in a nature park in Gateshead last October - with his attacker Leighton Amies denying murder before being found guilty at Newcastle Crown Court
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Man, 20, stabbed to death in shop pictured as devastated family pay tribute
Family and friends of Filipe, 20, have paid tribute to the young man after lost his life from a fatal stabbing in Tulse Hill last night
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Man, 20, stabbed to death inside shop with attacker still on the loose
A 20-year-old man has been stabbed to death inside a shop in Lambeth, London, with paramedics treating him at the scene unable to save him, while his attacker is on the loose
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Suspect in tech superstar's murder was a knife hoarder and 'super into weapons'
Nima Momeni, 38, from California, US, has been arrested in connection to the stabbing death of Cash App founder tech superstar Bob Lee after he was found with stab wounds on 4 April near San Francisco's city centre
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Boy, 14, arrested after teen stabbed to death outside primary school pictured
The suspect is the third teenager to be held in connection with the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Chima Osuji in Chingford, on Easter Monday
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'Desperate' woman predicted own death in 'chilling' WhatsApp message to friends
Aaisha Hasan, 34, allegedly kept secret recordings of her husband Asim Hasan and voiced her fears to her friends on WhatsApp before her death, in which she suffered 36 stab wounds
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Imam stabbed in back as mosque knifeman leaps forward during morning prayers
Security footage from inside the Omar Mosque in Paterson, New Jersey, shows the moment Serif Zorba stood up amid pre-dawn prayers, stepping over rows of praying men to get to the imam
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Teen sentenced for 21 years after mum rang 999 and told police he was a killer
During a confrontation between two groups in Radstock, Somerset, Joshua Delbono repeatedly stabbed 16-year-old Charley Bates before leaving him to die and trying to hide the evidence of his crime
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Mum of woman stabbed to death in bed comes face-to-face with daughter’s killer
Celeste Manno’s mother Aggie Di Mauro stared down her daughter’s killer Luay Sako for the first time as he pleaded guilty to her murder in Australia
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