‘Mayor needs to spend less time on social media and more time stopping the terrible crime wave’-Keith Prince AM

The recent weekend saw another outbreak of violent crime across London. Stabbings were reported in Romford, Ilford, Homerton, Peckham and Twickenham. The sad part now being that Londoners are not even shocked anymore, stabbings have become a regular occurrence in our society. When a crime scene is in place and a police cordon is put up, most people will automatically assume its another stabbing. Come Friday evening that marks the start of the weekend, the community prepares itself to be told of more stabbings.

For the past three weekends we have seen stabbings in Havering. One outside of a Romford nightclub on South Street, one outside of Array restaurant in Harold Wood and last weekend, a male chased by a group armed with a knife by Romford train station.

Havering and Redbridge GLA member and Councillor for Squirrels Heath ward, Keith Prince has hit out at the Mayor for his failure to not only deal with this ongoing nightmare, but his failure to even acknowledge what is happening on the London streets. Mr Prince told the Havering Daily: “While Sadiq Khan was busy complaining about Twitter, we saw a horrific wave of stabbings across London this weekend, including two in Ilford and one in Romford. As London’s police and crime commissioner, the Mayor needs to spend less time on social media and more time stopping the terrible crime wave that is happening on his watch.”

Residents across London are thoroughly fed up with the increase in knife crime and can see the police doing everything they can, but no other action being taken except that from anti knife crime campaigners.

Knife crime needs to be urgently addressed.