Knife Crime Jump Blamed On Internet Sales
Police are warning about the increased availability of knives online - which they believe is to blame for a rise in stabbings.
Commander Duncan Ball from the Met Police says it's too easy to buy blades, which comes as the latest figures reveal knife crime is up 13% in the UK in the last year.
(A mourner holds an order of service at the funeral of anti-gun campaigner Pat Regan, 53, in the Hyde Park area of Leeds.)
Well Shane Fenton from Leeds lost both his brother and his mum - anti-violence campaigner Pat Regan - to violent crime.
He now works with young people in the city to helping them to understand the dangers and vent anger through music.
He doesn't think the internet is to blame, saying "a lot of the young people they have this rage and they have this image to live up to. It's all about your reputation but you don't have a rep when you're in prison - all that's gone. If you walk away we won't think less of you, we'll think more of you.
"A lot of stuff that happens is spontaneous, someone gets mad, someone runs to the house, grabs the knife from the kitchen drawer. No-one's like 'ooh I got the latest knife with a serrated edge'."
"**We need to know that blood and bones… it can be destroyed by these things, it can go through someone's vital organs and cause a lot of damage and it's serious - you need to rethink, because when you're thinking someone's hurt you and you really want to hurt them back - take a moment and think of the consequences.
"At the end of the day we need to start focusing on building more youth clubs and more facilities for young people rather than always concentrating on the tough end of the scale. If you teach kids to be gentle, to speak to each other a bit better, we might not need to build as many prisons or think about tougher sentences."
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