Carrying a knife like this is the new ‘normal’ and I am lost for words-says bereaved mum.
A Harold Hill anti knife crime campaigner and bereaved mum is disgusted at how carrying large knives on the streets
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Knife Crime
Back Our Bobbies: More than 1,800 arrests during five-week anti-violence crackdown
Hundreds of knives were removed from the streets of London and more than 1,800 people arrested as the result of
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Met and BTP Officers combine forces to search for male with knife in Upminster station.
A large police presence was seen outside Upminster train station last night following reports of a man with a knife
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Gidea Park woman shocked after 10 year old threatens to gouge her eyes out with a knife.
A Gidea Park mum of two was walking home alone on Tuesday evening just after 5pm when she was threatened
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East Area police join nation wide Operation Sceptre, fighting knife crime.
From Monday 9 November, the Metropolitan Police Service will be joining other police forces around the country in coordinated efforts to tackle
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“I have campaigned over the last four years since my son was stabbed to death to make people aware of the rise in stabbings.”
Over the weekend we saw a further nine stabbings with three being fatal. Yesterday a 14-year-old boy was stabbed in
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Dangerous items taken off the streets by Take A Knife Save A Life Volunteers.
On one of their weekly patrols last week members of Take A Knife Save A Life removed five potentially very
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‘I know my son was just another black boy stabbed on our streets but he was my world.’
Peguy Kato is a Havering mum who lost her son to knife crime. He was murdered on the streets of
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Man in critical condition after being stabbed.
A member of the Take A knife Save A Life group who patrol Havering’s streets each week to remove knives
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‘Each year they talk about things they are going to do and yet each year we are seeing knife crime rise and murders on our street.’
The fourth and last East Area BCU Serious Violence Summit was held in Dagenham yesterday. The tri borough event sees
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‘It’s very scary, we need more police on our streets.’ Mum speaks of son’s knifepoint mugging.
A mum whose son was mugged at knifepoint of his jacket and bank card last night is upset at the
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The ‘when’ and ‘if’ game.
By Riyad Hacib. What is the ‘when and if game?’ It is very simple, it relates to the self-imposing questions
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‘Everything carries a price and carrying a knife carries a huge price.’
‘The minute you put that knife in your pocket is the minute you knock on the door of hell,’ these
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I am a member of this community, I am a black woman and I say no to all teenagers and youths carrying a knife.
Peguy Kato lost her son Champion Ghanda to the horrors of knife crime. He was brutally stabbed to death on
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‘My son was chased through Romford after being mugged and no one stopped to help’.
A Hornchurch mother of three whose son was mugged is urging other parents to report muggings and stand united as
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‘Our family will never get over what happened to Ricky.’
Today Sue Hedges Ricky Hayden’s, mum writes in the Havering Daily about her life since her son’s murder and the
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‘The knife is about eight to ten inches long and there is tape across the pole so it can be used like a spear’.
Members of ‘Take a knife Save a life’ last night conducted a weapon sweep in Collier Row and found an
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‘No knives in schools’.
With recent figures showing a shocking amount of children carrying knives to school, the Havering Daily contacted Havering council to
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‘We shouldn’t wait for death to knock on our door for us to support and make movements against knife crime.’
Two bereaved mums have today written for the Havering Daily. Peguy Kato lost her seventeen year old son Champion, stabbed
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‘That one moment of anger and revenge will cost you your life. You will tear your family apart.’
‘Don’t get used by people, by the person you were meant to be,’ were the moving words of former east
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