08 April 2019

And Winston Churchill wept...

insert alt text here...to say nothing of the cost in human lives...
A Freedom of Information request by the London Evening Standard has revealed there are an average of 40 knife related incidents every day in the British capital. The request revealed that in 2017 and 2018 there were a total of 29,232 knife related incidents reported, including 9,030 stabbings.

The homicide rate involving knives was an average of one knife-related death every four days.