Dagenham and Rainham Labour candidate takes part in Knife Crime Awareness Event.
Labour’s Prospective parliamentary candidate for Dagenham and Rainham, Margaret Mullane took part in the Knife Crime Awareness Event last week
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Knife Crime
Young people leading change in their community.
The Ben Kinsella Trust, a leading charity tackling knife crime in the UK, is thrilled to
announce a unique knife crime awareness event entirely designed and hosted by young
people from Barking and Dagenham.
Vehicle stop and search leads to another dangerous weapon being removed from our streets.
Officers undertook a stop and search on a vehicle near Bateman Close and as a result, two knives were removed.
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Will anyone tackle the increase in violent crime on our streets?
This is a public health crisis that must be addressed by all communities and all aspects of the community need to work together to tackle it.
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‘Stop murdering our children’-Bereaved mother hits out at London’s ongoing knife crime epidemic and urges community to stand united.
I hope Daniel’s community now supports this family. Their loss is indescribable. We must all unite against these crimes and show those who are willing to carry out attacks like these, that they are not wanted in our society. Stop murdering our children.”
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‘We’ve had eight years of fake promises,London’s streets are a free for all for knife crime’-Havering bereaved mother hits out at politicians knife crime failure.
“We need someone who will actually tackle knife crime, someone that will begin to work with us, campaigners and our communities right across London to stop this knife crime epidemic on the streets of the capital. We have had nothing but eight years of fake promises here in London and still the stabbings continue.”
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Latest figures reveal record breaking rise in shoplifting, robbery and knife crime.
The Office of National Statistics latest figures for 2023 have shown an increase in shoplifting, violent crime and robbery. Sadly this will not be a surprise to many, especially here in London.
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VIDEO:Romford MP hits out at lack of proper policing across Havering stating:”A recent crime wave across Gidea Park and Romford stabbings have created an atmosphere of fear that I am not prepared to tolerate.”
Under the Mayor of London’s tenure, crime has skyrocketed, leaving communities like Romford vulnerable and unsafe. A recent crime wave in Gidea Park and a stabbing in Romford have created an atmosphere of fear that I am not prepared to tolerate in Romford.
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Armed robbery at Hornchurch Post Office leaves two people injured.
A man brandishing a knife threatened staff at a post office/store in Hornchurch, leaving with a quantity of cash.
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EXCLUSIVE:’Stop comparing what is happening on our streets today to the Krays, they wasted their life, do not waste yours’-Chris Lambrianou.
“Well look at just how successful they were. They spent more years in prison than out. Is that what you want?” says Chris Lambrianou who stood in the dock alongside Reginald and Ronald Kray in the country’s biggest murder trial in 1968.
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Do not normalise knife crime, ask why are children as young as 12 carrying knives.
Yes knife crime is not a new problem, however what is a new problem is that children and let me repeat that, children as young as 12 years old are packing knives in their school bag instead of books and your views of normalising knife crime is exactly what has led us to the horrors that we see on our streets today.
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Stop and search sees knife and class A drugs seized from fifteen year old boy.
The youth was arrested and charged with four offences and is due to appear in court later this month.
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Youth arrested after knife point robbery in Romford given six months on tag.
The incident happened in the middle of January when the teenager from Rainham who is 16 years old, robbed two boys in Romford of their phone, alongside another teenager from South London.
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15 year old boy stabbed on the way home from school.
A 15 year old boy was stabbed on Broad Street in Dagenham yesterday Monday 4 March, as he made his way home from school.
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EXCLUSIVE:Bereaved mothers launch #IcareaboutHavering campaign in a bid to gather the community together and tackle knife crime telling the Mayor of London-‘You’ve done nothing about knife crime.’
We must come together now and start to tackle knife crime now before Havering becomes another London borough riddled with knife crime. The Mayor of London has done nothing to tackle this.
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Two teenagers charged with robbery after 15 year old boys threatened with knives and had their phones stolen.
Two 15-year-old boys were approached in the town centre by the suspects who allegedly threatened to stab them and took their phones.
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‘These dreadful attacks are shocking, we need urgent and concerted action to deter people from carrying knives.’
I have been consistently calling for increased Police presence on our streets and particularly around shopping areas and transport hubs
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‘We must stop the stabbings’
The recent spate of stabbings across Havering and Barking and Dagenham is the number one issue blighting our community
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EXCLUSIVE: Mum’s horror as she witnesses shocking Romford shopping centre stabbing.
Witnessing the stabbing has left the mum too scared to visit Romford on her own now.
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Large knife found hidden in children’s play area in Romford.
The weapon sweep was completed yesterday afternoon and one of the new officers to the team, spotted the dangerous weapon hidden away in the play area.
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