‘The streets are a free for all, doesn’t matter if it’s day or night knife crime is out there’-Bereaved mum hits out at weak Justice System.

‘For people bringing their children to eat out or watch a film, can you imagine how scared they would have been.’-Sue Hedges

“I was so saddened to see yet another stabbing in a shopping centre in half term. Children and families would have been everywhere. Those who saw the aftermath and the evacuation must have been so scared. There were reports of blood all over the floor.

“For people bringing their children to eat out or watch a film, can you imagine how scared they would have been. Or people that witnessed the man with the knife injury to his back. This is all shocking.”

Sue Hedges from the Ricky Hayden Memorial has spoken to the Havering Daily about the ongoing horrors of knife crime blighting our streets.

“Then yesterday we saw another stabbing not far from the first one under the same borough. The streets are a free for all. Doesn’t matter whether it’s day or night no one is safe anywhere.

“Myself and other bereaved mums, alongside anti knife crime campaigners have been battling against knife crime for so many years now and no one wants to know. No one cares.

“How many times have we stood outside City Hall, Parliament and yet here we are with two stabbings in one day.”

Sue has campaigned for a better Justice System for many years now and is fed up with the weak sentences that do not detract people from carrying knives.

“This country is too soft. No decent justice system. Sentencing is a joke. It’s time the powers to be stepped in and did something. Harsher sentencing. People are not scared of getting caught they get a slap on the wrists only to be back on the streets causing distress to the community.

“The Police do what they can with the little numbers they have, but we can’t put the blame on them. This needs to be a whole community approach and those in authority need to step in.”

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